Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mikem+ From: mikem+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: sendmail configuration question (sharing mailboxes). Message-ID: Date: 4 Sep 89 03:32:00 GMT Organization: Academic Computing, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 28 I have a local collection of machines (decstation 3100's running Ultrix 3.1, each with a local disk) and I would like to implement a "common" mailbox on all of these machines. The idea is to allow a user to log into any machine and be able to see their mail. At the moment I do not want to use the YP services. What I would like to do is have /usr/spool/mail on each machine be a symbolic link to (say) /SERVER/usr/spool/mail where /SERVER is a NFS mounted disk partition. On the server machine I want to run a regular sendmail that accepts incoming mail in the usual way. On the client machines I want to have a sendmail that can send out mail, but "forwards" all incoming local mail to the server machine and also delivers outgoing local mail to the server. I do NOT want the client sendmails ever dropping mail in /usr/spool/mail -- I'm sure there would be times when two sendmails are trying to write to the same file. (I'm using the latest version of sendmail from berkeley; it is important that my sendmail be able to access hosts with MX entries.) Does anyone else do anything like this? Does anyone have any suggestions on what I need to do to the sendmail.cf files to implement this. I'd appreciate any and all advice. Regards, Michael M. Meyer Statistics Carnegie Mellon University.