Re: SUMMARY (Re: What do you do for sendmail in your network of Suns?)

From: Thomas Wong (twong@civil.ubc.ca)
Date: Thu Jan 16 1992 - 14:07:53 CST


In article <1992Jan16.013916.11402@unixg.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
>Thank you for all the replies. Everybody basically had the same variation on the
>same technique. So here is how I combined all the ideas together....
>
>On the clients:
>
>- add to /etc/fstab:
> mailhost:/var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail nfs rw,noac,nosuid,intr,bg 0 0
> [ all the options in that line should be enough for safety purposes, I hope! :) ]
>- kill sendmail daemon so no spooling, only mail forwarding.
>- add MX entry to forward all mail to mailhost (this is for named).
>
>On mailhost:
>
>- add to /etc/exports:
> /var/spool/mail -access=client,root=client
>- grab all email to this domain regardless of machine in /etc/sendmail.cf.

One last thing being, you should use /usr/lib/sendmail.main.cf for the
mailhost /etc/sendmail.cf as opposed to the default. I reread the manual
and that's what it says too.

>
>Since I'm using SunOS 4.1.1, the OR entries are already in the /etc/sendmail.cf
>files. I've done tests and things work just fine.
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Thomas.
>



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