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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:33:15 -0500 (EDT)
From:      Patrick Ferguson <patrick@overlord.dmv.com>
To:        Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Cc:        Bruce Bauman <boot@mosquito.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Bruce Bauman <boot@itchy.mosquito.com>
Subject:   Re: mail question...
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.91.960216102455.15815B-100000@overlord.dmv.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960215170729.5931B-100000@okjunc.junction.net>

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Or you could just edit your sendmail config file and place the following line
in S0.  Basically it's for virtual domains, and it routes all mail addressed
user@virtual.dom -->  real@virtual.dom  (real is the account that is an 
actual account on your machine.  Otherwise, you will loose each name you 
alias to as a login account.)

R$-<@virtual.dom>	$#local$:real

*** Put this BEFORE    R@	$#local$:$n   ***
This will bypass your local mailer from checking whether the rightside of 
the lefthand equation is an actual valid account, ie is user@virtual.dom
a local account?????
This should be the very first line in the S0 section.  BTW, replace the 
@virtual.dom with their domainname and the real with the account that 
they are gonna pop the mail from remotely.  Remember also to put the 
domainname in the w macro:

Cwlocalhost virtual.dom


Patrick


On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Bruce Bauman wrote:
> 
> > We have a customer who has a Novell network, and their users want to receive 
> > Internet mail from us. This customer won't have a static IP address. They just
> > want to dial in and fetch mail from us, similar to the way our normal dialup
> > customers do (e.g. using POP).
> > 
> > The problem is, they want a single machine on their end to basically dial us
> > up and snarf the mail for all of their users, and feed back the outgoing
> > mail to us for eventual delivery on the Internet. We want a simple solution.
> 
> Make a sendmail database that forwards mail for all of their users to one 
> account. But warn them that they will need to sort the mail on their end 
> and if it is done manually, then their employees email will not be 
> confidential any more, just like a fax machine.
> 
> Better if you find out what corporate email system they are using and 
> talk to local VAR's about setting up some sort of gateway, maybe using UUCP.
> 
> Or if they would put a FreeBSD box on their network (an old 386 perhaps) 
> you could configure it to run a dialin script that makes a PPP connection 
> and then runs POPMAIL for each usera nd deposits each user's email in a 
> separate mailbox on the FreeBSD machine. Then they can just run Eudora or 
> Pegasus on each desktop and the FreeBSD box will be acting as their mail 
> server. Of course, this requires all machines to be running a TCP/IP 
> stack. This is unlikely if they have Novell 3.x
> 
> 
> Michael Dillon                                    Voice: +1-604-546-8022
> Memra Software Inc.                                 Fax: +1-604-546-3049
> http://www.memra.com                             E-mail: michael@memra.com
> 



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