RE: mail, sendmail, etc...

Gary Smith (gw-smith@geocities.com)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:35:04 -0700


It sounds like you are having 4 machines do the work of 1. I understand the
purpose of having NFS and the sharing of the home directories. This is a
good idea, but why do you want to have all 4 machines working and processing
sendmail when you can just have one. We pounded over a similar idea. What
is the purpose / goal of having all machines do the same job?

About the MX, not sure about that one.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
[mailto:owner-linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu] On Behalf Of Vincent Schultz
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 1998 8:22 AM
To: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu; linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: mail, sendmail, etc...

Hello Sirs,
I have 4 computers running linux 2.0.34 RedHat5.1 directly connected to the
Internet.
I set NIS on a server to share /home between the boxes with NFS. All the
users have the same /home directory ..
So far, it's OK.
... but what about mail and sendmail ?
Can i "export" via NFS the directory /var/spool/mail of the main server to
the others ?. All the users will be able to read their mail on every box....
i am not sure it's a good idea !
And if they want to send mail on the local network and/or Internet, do i
have to set a main SMTP/POP server or configure sendmail on each machine (to
use the command "mail", not only a navigator or another program) ? In this
case, the mail goes to the Internet but the addess of the sender is
user@host.domain.com

I don't know where to begin !

For the moment all the mail for Internet comes only if the adresse is :
user@host.domain.com not when the address is user@domain.com , althought i
have set a MX entry in my DNS, why ?

If someone can help me to begin...
Thank you,
Regards,

Vincent Schultz

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