Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)
mickyb@es.co.nz (Michael Beattie) writes:
> Okay... over the last 2-3 months I have been subscribed to this list, I
> have noticed a predominant percentage of messages are about smail, and
> it's configuration.
>
> Obviously, I have a question. What I would like to know is what are
> peoples opinion's on their own configurations, and what the pro's and
> con's are. One I can think of; Daniel's rewriting of /etc/smail/config
> every login, versus having visible_name set to your ISP's domain, to
> have a valid hostname. (All of these questions relate to dial-up
> configurations)
Well, I can give you some advantages/disadvantages of what I do. The
advantage is that Sender: addresses are always correct in some sense,
and the envelope From: address seems to be written correctly as
well. The disadvantage is that re-running smailconfig breaks this
setup (or rather, anything you get by running smailconfig is wiped out
at the next ip-up). It's probably the wrong thing to do for someone
whose box only ever has one user who's sending mail.
> Another question is, what is better: using a smarthost for all mail, or
> for mail that fails? opinions here....
Well... any mail composed while offline is just going to end up going
through the smarthost anyway, so why not use a smarthost all the time?
The only time I'd consider not using a smarthost for all mail (for a
dialup ppp box) would be when one's smarthost was notoriously slow.
> What would people suggest in my situation, where my ISP's SMTP server
> does not mind invalid hostnames? should I just use it as a smarthost,
> and forget about visible_name? I have not understood how to set up a
> smarthost, how is this done?
Yep. Setting this situation up is easy - in smailconfig choose the
"internet site" option, give your ISP's name as your visible name, and
enter their smtp server as your smarthost. Or, if you insist on
editing your /etc/smail/routers file directly, replace all routes with
this one:
smart_host:
driver=smarthost, transport=smtp;
path=your.isps.smtp.server
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