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Re: mail
S. Schapiro (gold) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> first I'd like to thank all of you who came to our meeting in jerusalem - it
> was very nice.
>
> 1. Whenever I send a mail from the Windows-station (there I defined nessy,
> my gateway, as SMTP mail gateway), sendmail immediately tries to forward it
> to it's recipient. This establishes a Internet connection everytime and the
> whole idea was to save on those (phone bill etc.) and swap mail twice a day.
>
You should try to use as local delivery agent any script that store/filter all
outgoing mail and establish the PPP at any night time.
( the rule should be something like this
Mehter, P=/you/prgrm/location, F=msDFMuCX, S=11, R=21, A=prgrmname $h
may be instead of $h you should use $u - I don't remember the difference and I
have no
forces to rtfm the manuals )
> 2. The other problem is that sendmail delivers mail itself, where I want it
> to relay it to mail.inter.net.il (my ISP mailserver) and let
> mail.inter.net.il do the dirty work. Also I have the feeling that it doesn't
> manage to deliver all mail (same solution, probably). Furthermore mail sent
> from the Windows-station ("geni") has a sender's host of
> 'geni.home.inter.net.il' instead of 'inter.net.il' (My mail-client put's
> schapiro@inter.net.il in the From: field, though). This migth lead to
> confusion.
>
Add "Djinter.net.il" in /etc/sendmail.cf then kill sendmail with -HUP to
get him to reread the config. files.
> I use sendmail bec. that's what came with the distrib. I also tried smail,
> but that didn't work/behave the same. I unfortunately don't understand how
> to configure sendmail (or install another package) to do the following task:
>
> 1. deliver mail locally (under 'home.inter.net.il', my "domain") immediately
>
Filling of the To: field ( in the mail header ( check RFC821 as I remember )
onlywith username will prevent him ( sendmail ) to use DNS for the host name
resolving.
So he wouldn't dial to the ISP :)
> Any help to reach above solution will be highly appreciated !
>
> Schlomo
>
> PS: I am sorry, but I hadn't yet the time to write up a summary of the
> meeting :-( Perhaps someone else volunteers ?
- References:
- mail
- From: "S. Schapiro (gold)" <schapiro@inter.net.il>