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From: nowicki@legato (Bill Nowicki)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Help with remote-mounted spool directory
Summary: "OR" option
Keywords: nfs
Message-ID: <1775@legato.Legato.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 90 20:39:04 GMT
References: <9566@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: nowicki@Legato.COM (Bill Nowicki)
Organization: Legato Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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In article <9566@ur-cc.UUCP> Mark Sirota <msir@cc.rochester.edu> writes:
>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."
>

The idea is that you just need to put "OR" in the standard sendmail.cf
file. This is the way it is shipped from Sun, and Sun has the exact
same standard sendmail.cf file on thousands of systems.  The "OR" will
have no effect on the server that actually has the /var/spool/mail
mailboxes on its physical disk.  On machines that have /var/spool/mail
mounted across the network using NFS, the rest of the rules in
sendmail.cf will be ignored, and all mail will be delivered via the
SMTP protocol (i.e. TCP over the network) to the file server from
which /var/spool/mail is mounted.

P.S. Although I designed and implemented this feature, I would not
call the manual "useless". "Terse" perhaps.

-- Bill Nowicki
   Legato Systems