Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!ub.d.umn.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!unido!pbinfo!michael From: michael@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Schmidt) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Problem: mail spool area and .forward on different machines Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 13:21:39 GMT References: <5476@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <926@iiasa.UUCP> <1990Nov1.102200@ap.co.umist.ac.uk> Sender: news@uni-paderborn.de (News Uni-Paderborn) Organization: Uni Paderborn, Germany Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk's message of 1 Nov 90 10:22:00 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: athene We have ONE mail directory mounted on all machines, we are using. We do local delivery to make "mail user" work (although we encourage to use the full domain address). All sent mail will have the fully qualified mail address without any hostname in the from field. All incoming mail gets delivered on the main mail machine. You have to ensure, that all mailers involved respect the same lock. In our case it is the standard lock file "user.lock" in the maildirectory. It is respected by all our mailers including mail, elm, mh, GNU Emacs rmail, ... -- Michael Schmidt, FB 17, Uni-GH Paderborn, Warburgerstr. 100, D-4790 Paderborn, West Germany Mail: michael@pbinfo.UUCP or michael@uni-paderborn.de