Re: When /usr/mail/mail is NFS-mounted

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From: Daniel R. Kegel
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 18:19

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VSBENZI@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il (Benzi mizrahi) writes:
>In order to provide identical mail environment for our WorkStations'
>users we mount /usr/spool/mail from from our designated 'mailhost'.
>All SUN w/s by default see these host as sorta mail server and send
>their mail via this mailhost, no matter what their sendmail.cf says.
>  When this mailhost is down , and SUN w/s users try to send
>mail, their mail vanish , dissapers in some black hole.
>
>It seems that SunOS 4.x by default
>see the nfs server of the /usr/spool/mail as mail server no matter
>what you put on .cf . What can be done to work around this problem with out
>having to retrieve some new version of sendmail and try to install
>it on our SUN w/s??

Comment out the OR line in sendmail.cf.
Read the articles on "OR - Remote mode?" in this newsgroup.

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