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Re: E Mail & PPP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr Eberhard W Lisse)
Mon Sep 9 09:14:34 1996
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 13:32:38 +0100
To: Paul Wouters <paul@xtdnet.nl>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: el@lisse.na (Dr Eberhard W Lisse)
Cc: joseph@voltec.com
Paul, Randall,
At 21:07 8/9/96, Paul Wouters wrote:
>On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Randall Shutt wrote:
>
>> > However, here's the rub. When I connect to our ISP using ppp, all of
>> > our Internet E Mail gets routed to the ISP rather than the UUCP host.
>> > E Mail for the whole company should be entirely routed through the
>> > UUCP host. I don't know if this is how its intented to work &
>> > generally I'd say its a pleasant boon, however, I need to have mail
>> > routed to the UUCP host.
What about
FEATURE(mailertable,`hash -o /etc/sendmail/mailertable.db')dnl
would that not do the trick?
>> > I can't remove the TCP/IP section of sendmail because we use SMTP on
>> > many computers which all use the single Linux Box as the mail hub.
>
>Receiving and sending emails are totally unrelated for sendmail. It's
>perfectly okay to use smtp for incoming and uucp for outgoing email.
That's true, sendmail reads the SMTP on standard input if I am not mistaken,
whether you define the smtp mailer or not.
>> How about restricting the rulesets further which choose the final mailer?
>> Be a little more specific about which mails gets sent through which mailer.
>
>Exactly. I've uploaded a couple of new sendmail configurations to Barry
>Chapmans ISP webpage. They include a sendmail configuration file for a
>uucp client. I had that machine hooked up through ethernet to the network
>and still have it only send email through uucp (I am even using the TCP
>uucp mailer, since the machine normally starts a PPP connection and after
>it's established will it initiate a UUCP connection over TCP)
Why going into the rulesets if the mailertable feature were to do it?
>Grab the files at http://www.mtiweb.com/isp. If you have any problems,
>feel free to mail me. I am no sendmail guru, but I've survived configuring
>it :)
greetings, el
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