[2688] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Oh wow is this going to suck
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Wed Feb 24 19:00:09 1999
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Cc: webmaster-internal@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:22:41 EST."
<199902242322.SAA15561@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:59:37 EST
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
Since the most common resnet machine configuration that
is running sendmail that we're hitting this problem with is
probaly Linux, I suspect we can deal. How difficult would it
be to make the sendmail.cf config under redhat-athena 5.2
also point webmaster@machinename to root@machinename (kind of
like postmaster does)? Linux-dev?
--Angie Kelic
for the MIT SIPB Webmasters
>| The bad news is that the reason we are getting all of this
>| mail about the other MITnet machines is that alexa sends
>| mail to webmaster@machinename.mit.edu, and guess what athena
>| does with that if local mail delivery isn't set up (or at
>| least what it seems to do)? sends the mail to webmaster@mit.edu
>
>I think you're misinterpreting.
>
>Mail to webmaster@machinename.mit.edu will either go to machine.mit.edu
>or be dropped on the floor.
>
>If machine.mit.edu is running sendmail (or qmail, or whatever), then
>it won't be dropped on the floor. Depending on how it is configured,
>it may try to deliver it to webmaster@mit.edu, or a local account
>called webmaster, or some other option.
>
>You can argue that the first is incorrect until you are blue in the face,
>but 1) you won't convince everyone, and 2) it's not really Athena's fault.
>
>--jhawk
