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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 97 11:56:33 -0500
From: Kent Hauser <kent@tfd.com>
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Subject: sendmail & the roving laptop
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How does one go about setting up sendmail to work with a travelling laptop?

What I want is to be able to send mail to `foo@x.org' & have it 
queued for uucp transmission. I also want mail to `kent@tfd.com' and `kent'
to be locally delivered. For extra credit I would like mail to
`co-worker@tfd.com' and/or `co-worker' to be queued for uucp transmission.

I have run into two main classes of problems:

1) sendmail refuses to *not* do a dns lookup even when the "no dns" option
   is specified. While my laptop nameserver has all of the local records,
   it can't do a real lookup while travelling.

    This causes sendmail to hang & not send the mail.

2) all mail is either locally delivered or queued. If mail to a 
   co-worker is queued for uucp xmission, then my mail is also queued.
   If mail to me is locally delivered, then co-worker mail is also &
   bounces.

[[ I experimented with the above while connected to the local ethernet
   to get around problem number 1. ]]

As this must be a common problem, I hope someone can help me out.

Thanks,

	Kent

========

For what it's worth, it's a piece of cake to get the mail server to
forward a copy of all mail to the laptop via uucp. All you need is
this entry in the `.forward' file & the following shell script.

.forward:
\kent, "|rsh uucp-host rmail-kent"
  
rmail-kent:
#!/bin/sh
exec uux -p -n 'kent!rmail kent'