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In article <52rr60$o0n@news.mel.aone.net.au>,
Graham Daveney <daveney@altus.speednet.com.au> wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>  
>  At this stage I am going through the O'Reilly book on sendmail which is great.
>
>  The problem is that I cannot find anywhere both on the net and in the book on
>how to configure a client to use sendmail as opposed to local delivery.
>
>  The question in my mind is, is there some code written into the client that
>says if the mail message is for "user" then deliver directly to the users' 
>mailbox, and if the mail message is for "user@host" then pass over to sendmail.
>
>  My questions are :
>
>  (1) how do you configure the mail clients to use or not to use sendmail ?

I think you'll find all the mail goes through sendmail whether local or
not.  Local e-mail still needs aliases expanding etc.  Sometimes you can't
tell whether it's local or remote until aliases have been dealt with.

>
>  (2) if the mail has to be passed off to sendmail, what is the mechanism for
>      this ?

The MUA invokes sendmail and passes it the message for delivery.

John
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John Winters.  Wallingford, Oxon, England.