On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 06:08:04PM +0200, Ferdinand Schinagl wrote:
> I'd need some advice on what to do with my mailing system on machines
> with automounted home directories. As a fact my clients smail is not
> able to read out ~/.forward files, at least not temporarily so that
> there are always undelivered messages accumulating under
> /var/spool/mail. This happens for sure at least for my own account.
If I undestand you correctly, you have a bunch of client hosts which are
trying to deliver mail themselves but not managing to find .forward
files all the time?
> What can I do about that? Shall I set some kind of 'global' forward
> directive for my mailer daemon and if so how do I do this, or maybe
> deactivate mailing on the clients with automounted homes completely, or
> what?
You should probably set the clients up to forward mail to a central
machine from which automounting works. With most Debian mailers the
satellite option will allow you to do this, although you will probably
also want to disable the interpretation of .forward files on the client
machines (the userforward director under Exim).
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