Re: How to manager different network environments?
From: "Andrew McMillan" <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>
> On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 08:48, Derek Broughton wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 07:58, Auke Jilderda wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm playing around with whereami, looks really good! I'll look into the
> > > > docking/undocking later and first see if I can get it to work properly
> > > > in a simple case (two networks, both DHCP, setting mail relay and
> > > > network mounts). Browsing through the "setmailrelay" suggests that it
> > > > is written for either Sendmail or Postfix, is that correct or does it
> > > > also work with Exim?
> > >
> > > Correct - I haven't had any Exim users itchy enough to send me the
> > > details of what is required so far. I used to use sendmail, but I use
> > > masqmail at the moment, so there is also integration with that.
> >
> > It shouldn't be an issue. Exim should install itself _as_ sendmail. So
> > anything you can do with Sendmail should work.
>
> Unfortunately it isn't quite that straightforward. The setmailrelay
> script needs to update the configuration file for exim, make changes so
> that mail is relayed differently, and then restart it.
>
> It isn't _hard_ but Exim isn't compatible with sendmail at the
> configuration file level, unless I miss my guess.
oh... 'fraid so. The Exim configuration is, imo, a whole lot simpler - but that
doesn't mean applying config changes for sendmail is going to work :-) Having
opened my mouth when I shouldn't, I'll take a look at setmailrelay and see what
it would need to work with Exim :-)
derek
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