[2657] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: where to relay mail [was Re: Let's release this puppy]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron M. Hoffmann)
Tue Feb 16 16:48:31 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:47:59 -0500
From: "Ron M. Hoffmann" <hoffmann@MIT.EDU>
To: sit@MIT.EDU
Cc: sly@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, postmaster@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199902162119.QAA30383@harlie.mit.edu> (message from Emil Sit on
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:19:15 EST)
The operators of the mail system would like the athena
sendmail.cf to be the linux-athena default configuration.
It may be that for people outside net-18, something else
needs to be done but please do NOT alter the sendmail.cf
to point at outgoing.mit.edu for the linux-athena 5.3 release.
-Ron Hoffmann
<postmaster@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:19:15 EST
From: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
> their mail sending. I think shifting that many on campus users (lots
> of resnet folks are running Linux) is just going to overload outgoing
> for no good reason.
Eudora is lame and doesn't support MX records. All campus Eudora
clients (should) relay their mail through outgoing. I suspect that
the current system of RH-A relaying mail through athena.mit.edu
(i.e. pca and ssa) does not significantly reduce load on outgoing.
And thus having new RH-A machines relay through outgoing probably
won't affect its load all that much. If anything, it seems like
relaying through outgoing might reduce load on ssa and pca, which
presumably handle way more traffic than outgoing does.
--
Emil Sit / Bronx Science '95, MIT '99 -- ESG, SIPB, Athena Consulting
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