On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote:
> Many thanks for the responses I've got!
> However, things are somewhat more complex than they seem to be - or I cannot
> see the forest due to the large amount of trees as a German saying points out.
> In fact, I have - and I studied the book about sendmail. But let me point out a
> little more about my configuration:
> - I have an internet interface via ISDN,
> - I have a local name server for my local net I work on most of the time,
> - I managed sendmail to mail all mail within the local net directly but spool
> all outgoing mail,
> - my supplier is t-online, having it's own mail host which is the "SmartHost"
> for my local machine,
> - currently I use XFmail, however, I am afraid that it will vanish sooner or
> later because there are no more updates and hardly any info traffic on the
> mailing list of XFmail.
> - XFmail is configured to send mail via sendmail, and sendmail gets the
> parameter -ODeliveryMode=deferred, hence mail is only queued.
> - Once a night sendmail is called via sendmail -q and forwards any mail to
> mailto.btx.dtag.de, my suppliers mail server.
> - all those efforts are neccessary because I had a hard time to get my system
> quiet i. e. not always dial into the internet for simple mail transfers or
> whatever. This had turned out to be very costly before.
> - I have attached my configuration file I use to create the required
> sendmail.cf file.
I never used m4 to produce the required sendmail.cf-file.
Remember to start sendmail like this: /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -os
(to disable timed delivery)
Use 'sendmail -q -v' via crontab to deliver on interval.
Set HoldExpensive=True
Only set the SMTP-mailers expensive (add flag 'e').
If it's an internal mail-server, disable relay/spam control.
I've had no use for a smarthost to do this effectivly.
Hope this helps...
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