Re: Sendmail newbie question
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:35:50PM -0500, Jay Latham wrote:
> I have three computers in my home. I use one as a router to masq
> the other two to the internet. I would also like to use this one
> as the mail hub. There is only one user for the three boxes.
> What I would like to do is to be able to read my mail from any
> box but still save it on the hub. So that if I want to refer to
> a saved msg from a different box I can get to it.
>
> The router is running debian 2.2r3 using
> fetchmail-sendmail-procmail-mutt to deal with mail. The way it
> is currently set up I have to read and send all mail from this
> box. The other 2 boxes are using progeny-debian. I went this
> route primarily because of the ease of X configuration with
> progeny. They also have the same mail pkgs installed. So, my
> question is, how can I set the network up to be able to
> send/read mail from any box but store all mail on the hub?
Well, one way would be to NFS export /var/spool/mail to the other two
boxes, which is what I'd probably do (and maybe also use NFS for your home
directory for saved mail). I have no idea how hard this is to do, though.
--
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
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