Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 16:27:19 GMT From: john@goodleaf.net To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: local only mail delivery--why the hell do I want that? Message-ID: <20001014162719.84C905BCA@clyde.goodleaf.net> In-Reply-To: <14823.38681.759134.620093@guru.mired.org> References: <14823.38681.759134.620093@guru.mired.org>
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Thanks for the response. I guess it does seem strange doesn't it? The reason for qmail: I want to run sqwebmail, which needs maildir delivery. There may be other software that will do this, but I'm not familiar with it. The reason for local delivery: The company I work for is of a biotech nature, meaning we work under FDA regulation. Systems must be *HIGHLY* validated. Email in conventional form is a royal PITA to validate to the degree required; too many remote ingresses and egresses. But my dept wants to use email as part of the process flow. So... I figure the solution is to have a local only email domain based on open-source (validatable source code) software which is also easy for the computer illiterates to use. Basically I want to deliver only to people in my dept, no one else. That way, got a completely closed, but still email-based system; for dept. communications, we use sqwebmail, but for other communications, we switch to Lotus Notes. Notes, BTW is a terrible, terrible piece of software... I'll give your suggestion a try when I go in on Monday... -John Mike Meyer writes: > john@goodleaf.net writes: > > Any qmail junkies out there? How can I force qmail to deliver mail locally > > only, in other words, not even to attempt to deliver to a remote machine. I > > know I could block the port with ipfw, but there must be a less kludgy > > solution. > > Do you *really* want someone sending mail to "questions@freebsd.org" > to wind up trying to deliever it to "questions" on your machine? That > seems an odd things to want. I mean - why run qmail at all? Just plug > a local delivery agent in for sendmail (either via > /etc/mail/mailer.conf, or as /usr/sbin/sendmail). > > In any case, if you *really* want that, you might try making > /var/qmail/control/locals be a line with a single period. I have no > idea what it will actually do (logically, it should work), so let me > know what happens, ok? > > <mike > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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