On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 10:27:30AM +0100, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: > >> What I did was run the smailconfig program and chose option 2. This > >> allows > >> you to specify the smarthost where all non-local mail is to be > >> transmitted. > > >> When asked for a smarthost I gave the SMTP server that I get from my ISP. > >> That's what I have at home- is this what you are looking for? Is this even > > >> the right way to go about it? > >> The version I have is Smail-3.2.0.92 1997-Feb-9 #2. (from sendmail -V)
I use the smarthost option; however, the "smailconfig" program does not do the job correctly for a typical dial-up isp account. The resulting configuration fails when you want to send email to a user on your isp. You have to edit "/etc/smail/config" to make that work. > Does this setup allow Smail to queue all non-local mail, until the link to the > ISP becomes available? Perhaps due to my ignorance, I could only get smail to queue _all_ mail or queue _none_. If none, then smail generates an error message (observe with a "mailq") but queues the non-local mail until the system does a "runq". If all, then all mail is queued until a "runq". The only apparent difference for non-local mail "sent" while off-line is the error message in the queue. I use the "queue_only" option since I don't email myself often. :) "runq" is executed frequently but only during ppp connections -- system messages will still get delivered locally. > How do you allow for the change of return email address when sending non-local > mail? As wouldn't just setting the return address affect local mail as well. The following setup in /etc/smail/config, where "klis.com" is the domain of the isp ("visible_name"), works to give the correct return address so that replies can be routed through the isp pop-mail server (provided the user name is the same on both systems -- without the intervention of additional pop client configuration). Local mail works fine this way. queue_only visible_name=klis.com more_hostnames=localhost -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null