[2659] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: where to relay mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Thu Feb 18 15:02:48 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:01:37 -0500
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[2657] in SIPB_Linux_Development"
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
As of athena-rc-8.2-23.rpm, I believe all Linux-Athena sendmail issues
are reasonably resolved.
Mail relay: Linux-Athena now uses the mail-relay system suggested in
linux-dev:[2651]. That is, the athena startup script runs
/etc/athena/fix-sendmail.sh, which checks the value of $SENDMAILCF
from rc.conf. This variable may have the following values:
"athena" - do what the public cluster machines do.
"outgoing" - use outgoing.mit.edu.
"direct" - don't use a relay.
"auto" - if on net 18, use "athena". Else, use "outgoing".
If $SENDMAILCF is not set (or is set to the empty string), then
fix-sendmail.sh won't do anything.
The source code for this stuff is in sipb-source-reviewers[691].
Local users: /etc/localusers should work the same way in
athena-rc-8.2-23.rpm as it did in Linux-Athena 4.2.
Have a nice day,
Sal.
