Re: Smail configuration
In smailconfig, you must choose option (1), then after several
more questions, you give your ISP's mail server's name in response to:
"Do you have a smarthost available (and accessible via SMTP) ?
A smarthost is a system to which you forward mail you don't want to
deliver yourself; it presumably has better connectivity or routing
information than you do. Commercial providers usually provide a
smarthost for their customers, and large organisations will often have
a site mail switch which can be used. Use of a smarthost is strongly
recommended (you'll be able to specify exactly when to use it soon).
If a smarthost is available please enter its name (otherwise, `none').
Enter value (`x' to restart):"
Then choose (1) to the following:
"Do you wish to use the smarthost for:
(1) All outbound mail. This is good if your system is poorly
connected, eg via dialup SLIP, as you don't have to talk
to distant machines yourself, and it allows you to send out
just one copy of a message for all its the remote recipients.
(2) Mail that you have failed to find a way to route. This
means that mail for any unknown hosts or domains will be
sent to the smarthost in the hope that it will know better;
if it doesn't the smarthost should bounce it back to you.
This is recommended for most situations, and usually results
in faster end-to-end delivery than always using the smarthost.
(3) Only mail to the `awkward' UUCP and BITNET domains.
These domains don't appear in the Internet routing tables,
and how to reach them varies depending on your location.
Use this if your smarthost's admin has asked you to avoid using
the smarthost unnecessarily, or if it is unreliable or very slow.
Select a number from 1 to 3, from the list above."
This will give the results that I think the original poster was
looking for.
Bob
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 20:02:05 Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> Bob Nielsen writes:
>
> > I'd like to do the same thing, but I don't get that option from
> > smailconfig (smail_3.2-3 from 1.3.1):
> >
> > You must choose one of the options below:
> > (1) Internet site: you send and receive Internet mail on this
> > machine, using SMTP over TCP/IP.
> > (2) UUCP to smarthost (upstream site):
> > You send and receive mail via UUCP; outbound mail is sent to your
> > smarthost (probably your service provider) for routing and delivery.
>
> This should be easily changable to use a smtp smarthost instead
> of uucp smart host.
>
> > (3) Satellite system:
> > No mail is to be delivered or routed here. Any mail generated
> > on this system is sent to a central mail switch using SMTP.
>
> Have you tried this?
>
> > (4) Local delivery only:
> > You are not on a network. Mail for local users is delivered.
> > (5) No configuration:
> > No configuration will be done now; your mail system will be broken and
> > should not be used. You must then do the configuration yourself later or
> > run this script, /usr/sbin/smailconfig, as root.
>
> Umh I see, smailconfig lacks this special option. I'll send you
> my configuration in a separate mail.
>
> Regards
>
> Joey
>
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