From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 25 05:12:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA22148 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 05:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA22128 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 05:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA04351; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 22:12:05 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 22:12:03 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: davide@galactica.it cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail relay In-Reply-To: <199607251046.DAA09776@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 25 Jul 1996 davide@galactica.it wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to give e-mail to one SMTP server that is not always online > (is attache by me with a dial up line) and that has a different domain. > How have I to configure my FreeBSD mail server to hold the mail of > that domain until the remote mail server offline and send it the mail > when is online ? Look for macro Ow in sendmail.cf and define it to be True. Then, make your FreeBSD mail server the *best* MX for the target machine and the Ow macro will make sendmail deliver the mail to the target even though the FreeBSD machine is the best MX. Danny