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From: msir@sulu.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota)
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Subject: Help with remote-mounted spool directory
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Date: 19 Sep 90 21:02:06 GMT
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I realize that this is discussed all the time, but I've never paid attention
before because it was never an issue for me...  But now I want to start
remote-mounting /usr/spool/mail for a cluster of diskless Sun workstations
currently running SunOS 4.0.3.

Currently I use my own sendmail.cf, which is exactly the same for all
machines on our network.  It does all delivery itself, rather than
forwarding on to a central mailhost.  Now, for this new setup, I'm going to
want all local delivery to be done by the server, so that multiple machines
don't all go writing into the same file at the same time, right?

I'm told I need to use the 'R' option for this.  The manual is pretty
useless on this, it says "Remote mode.  Deliver through remote SMTP server.
Default is location of /var/spool/mail."

What does this *really* do?  (I don't have sources.)  Can I just add this
option with the name of the fileserver, or do I need to completely rework my
sendmail.cf to forward all local mail on to the server?

Thanks muchly in advance.
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