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From: rob@genrad.com (Robert S. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: NFS mail
Message-ID: <17946@genrad.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 89 02:36:56 GMT
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I have over 100 systems to manage.  The number is growing daily.  I now
run news by nfs mounting /usr/spool/news and /usr/lib/news.  Thus everyone
can read news anywhere and I do not have to transport it around.

Can I do this with mail?  Can I mount /usr/spool/mail everywhere and
not transport it around?  Can I trick mail to thinking it is coming from
the 'main' machine irregardless of where it is coming from?  Would I
still use sendmail, or should /bin/mail be all I need with a special
sendmail.cf on the 'main' machine?

Has anyone done this?  Am I off-track?

		rob@genrad.com