In <1992Oct1.173131.2416@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> swlodin@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Steve Lodin) writes:
>In article <1aeavoINNdga@early-bird.think.com>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>> In article <1992Sep30.203648.7075@netcom.com> wisner@netcom.com (Bill Wisner) writes:
>> >mosedale@fafner.stanford.edu (Dan Mosedale) writes:
>> >>In SunOS, this is done by setting up sendmail.cf to use the
>> >>OR command (see /usr/lib/sendmail.subsidiary.cf).
>> >When the R option is enabled, *all* mail gets delivered through the
>> >mail host. The From: address on outbound mail gets set to the name
>> >of your domain, rather than your individual hostname. This is not
>> >always the correct thing to do.
>>
>> The context of the suggestion was that everyone is NFS-mounting
>> /usr/spool/mail from the mail host. In that case, why wouldn't it be
>> correct for the From: address to be an address that gets delivered to that
>> host?
>>
>> Clearly, any machine that has its own /usr/spool/mail would not use this
>> feature, but that's not what we're talking about.
>I don't know what he meant, but I interpreted it this way:
>When all mail goes thru the mailhost with some obscure name that the
>users don't like, it is not preferred. The users would like their
>mail to come from user@joe-cool.domain instead of user@obscure-name.domain.
>We had that problem here, but squashed it.
We have another case where you do not want the /var/spool/mail server's
name as the source of the mail. We have a client machine that is a UUCP
server, and the mail directories are on a fileserver. To have a proper
return address, the mail must not have the fileserver's name but the
UUCP server's name.
- Jim
-- [Jim] pirzyk@uiuc.edu ------------------------------------------------- TAC System Administrator, USArmy Construction Engineering Resarch Labs /* Hello, we're the government and we're here to help you. :) */
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