Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 19:39:51 +0100 From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> To: Stephen Tsai <tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MH 6.8.3 package problem! Message-ID: <6952.808684791@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Aug 1995 11:33:28 GMT." <199508171133.LAA00442@bsd1.keck.lmu.edu>
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In message <199508171133.LAA00442@bsd1.keck.lmu.edu>, Stephen Tsai writes: >My machine is runing on a network. The local host does not running the >sendmail. The sendmail only running on the server. I have no problem in >sending mail form my computer without sendmail. I am wondering how can I >make the mh work on my computer. Please tell me how to properly >configure them. Thanks. You could perhaps recompile MH to use a different address for delivery, but one large installation (similar to yours by the sounds of it) handled MH by running minimal sendmail configs on each of the diskless clients which just punted the mail straight to a server which handled the onward delivery. You can do something similar, relatively easily, by running sendmail with a slight modification to the default sendmail.cf. Look for the lines: # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DS and change the 2nd line to read something like: DSyour.local.smart.host Replacing `your.local.smart.host' with the local server. The reason only MH does this, is that most other mailers feed the mail as a pipe into the stdin of /usr/sbin/sendmail. So in effect, even if you did not run sendmail -bd (to run it as a daemon), you still ran sendmail to send the mail out. MH just requires that the daemon be present. Gary
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