[2625] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: MIT Mailhubs Linux-Athena mail from outside net-18
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Sun Feb 14 15:35:21 1999
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 15:35:05 -0500 (EST)
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Karl Ramm <kcr@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[2621] in SIPB_Linux_Development"
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
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I agree with Karl: If mail from one non-MIT machine to an other
non-MIT machine bounces, it's certainly not MIT's problem. We
(linux-dev) can deal with this.
One solution, as Erik suggested, it to use the sendmail.cf from 4.2,
which keeps mail on the local machine until it can send it. I don't
particularly like that solution, but I can live with it.
An other solution is to provide two (or three) sendmail configuration
files in the athena-rc package: the stock Athena 8.2 sendmail.cf, and
a sendmail.cf that stores mail locally. (A third option would be one
that sends all mail to outgoing.mit.edu.) Then, we could modify the
athena startup script to check the fully qualified hostname and/or
$PUBLIC from rc.conf, and use this information to symlink
/etc/sendmail.cf to the appropriate file.
If anyone has any opinions, such as:
- Should we install zero, one, two, or three sendmail.cf files?
- Should we check the domain name or $PUBLIC?
- Should we queue mail locally or on outgoing.mit.edu?
... I'm sure we'd all love to hear them.
Have a nice day,
Sal.
