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From: john@goodleaf.net
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
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Subject: Re: local only mail delivery--why the hell do I want that?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 16:27:19 GMT
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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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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