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to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 1999-10-24 22:12:28
subject: E-Mail servers??

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Russell Tiedt:

 RT> Yes. I am running Warp 3 Connect, it has sendmail, but as far as I can
 RT> see there is no way to do much usefull with it, at least I have found
 RT> nothing that suggests how one might go about it, [...]

 JdBP> It's the standard UCB sendmail.  It's difficult to configure
 JdBP> because of sendmail.cf, but that's simply a design flaw of UCB
 JdBP> sendmail.  The OS/2 port does everything that can be done with
 JdBP> UCB sendmail except for those rare things that require sockets as
 JdBP> standard input (such as BSMTP).

 JdBP> In particular, the usual "sendmail -bd -q30m" will run a sendmail
 JdBP> daemon listening on the SMTP port for incoming mail, and will
 JdBP> deliver it according to the rewrite and mailer rules set up in
 JdBP> sendmail.cf .  (OS/2 Warp's TCP/IP Configuration utility will
 JdBP> cause the sendmail daemon to be started in the proper manner if
 JdBP> you ask it to.)

Ahh, so would a sendmail.cf generated under Linux work if copied over to
OS/2?

Go well,

Russell 
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