Re: Setting up qmail for university

2000-05-22 Thread Mate Wierdl
I just share one experience that happened in our department: The mail server was on one box, and users home directories on another, and /home was nfs mounted on the mail server. qmail-users was not set up, and one day, while our sysadm was on vacation, the nfs server failed---and it was down

Setting up qmail for university

2000-05-21 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, I am about to setup a internet mail server for my university. (First time getting to internet) and I have decided to use qmail as the mta for my server. I already have a nis server running on my linux network. My questions are 1. I dont want all students having a valid nis account to have

Re: Setting up qmail for university

2000-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Suresh Kumar R [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. I dont want all students having a valid nis account to have an email address. The email addresses facility should be for a subset of the NIS data base. How can it be done? I assume that the qmail server should be a nis client/server and there is no

Re: Setting up qmail for university

2000-05-21 Thread Chin Fang
1. I dont want all students having a valid nis account to have an email address. The email addresses facility should be for a subset of the NIS data base. How can it be done? I assume that the qmail server should be a nis client/server and there is no other way. Read qmail-users; you