From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 16:58:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA28507 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 16:58:32 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA28501 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 16:58:31 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA20643; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 16:58:00 -0800 Message-Id: <199503090058.QAA20643@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Setup Mail Server(Hub) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Mar 1995 23:22:08 GMT." <199503082322.XAA26545@server.keck.lmu.edu> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 16:57:54 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I am trying to setup a mail server for a local area network which >consists one one Server and a few workstations. They are all running >BSD 1.1.5.1. Only the Server is on all the time. When people send >mail from workstations, their address will have the address of the >workstation. When people try to reply the mail sent from workstation >, if the workstation is not on at the time of delivery. Then the mail >can not be deliveried. I am wondering how can I setup the mail system >on the workstation are run in remote mode( I have already add OR in the >sendmail.cf file, but it does not seem to work. Also I add a entry in >/etc/hosts to tell the workstation that the mailhost is the Server). >Please help me to make it work correctly. Thanks. > > >Yao-Wen Stephen Tsai 3/8/95 You can do one of two things: 1) Have all of the clients "masquerade" as the server. This means that the reply-to field of outgoing mail points to the server, and not the client that sent it. 2) Setup MX records for the clients pointing to the server. Both of these topics should be addressed in the sendmail docs. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================