| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
Hello,
this is a probably a simple question but I'm not a sendmail expert.
A customer called me saying that they need sendmail V8.8 so that they
can implemet a mail relay.
I checked on the spd and found that our sendmail is based on 4.3BSD
sendmail V5.65 with IDA enhancements, I checked in the network manual
and found we can define:
- a mail relay to which the mail is forwared to
- a mail server
Does 'mail relay' = 'mail server'?
Can we build a mail relay on Digital Unix 3.2C?
Thanks,
Gea
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| 9905.1 | HYDRA::SMITH | Tom Smith ZKO1-3/H42 +1 603 881-6329 | Wed May 21 1997 23:46 | 14 | |
sendmail V8.8 is not required in order to have a mail relay, nor is
sendmail the only relay software around. All versions of sendmail are
relays.
However, sendmail V8 (and especially V8.8) provides a great deal more
functionality than sendmail V5.65. If they know what those extra
features are and if they want or need them, sendmail V8.8.5 is
available from ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/ . They'll have to
build it from the sources (easy) and build their own configuration
files from the M4 files provided (buy the O'Reilly book on sendmail or
hire a consultant). A future version of Digital UNIX will include
sendmail V8, but the latest snapshot I've seen is based on V8.7.6.
-Tom
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| 9905.2 | thanks | MLNCSC::VOCI | Thu May 22 1997 09:22 | 3 | |
Thanks a lot for your responce.
Gea
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| 9905.3 | LEXS01::GINGER | Ron Ginger | Thu May 22 1997 13:03 | 7 | |
>A future version of Digital UNIX will include
>sendmail V8, but the latest snapshot I've seen is based on V8.7.6.
Ah good, in a 'future version' we will have a feature our customers
need that is already 'the old version'
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| 9905.4 | HYDRA::SMITH | Tom Smith ZKO1-3/H42 +1 603 881-6329 | Thu May 22 1997 16:07 | 7 | |
re: .-1
I wouldn't get too upset. There are 5 or 6 minor versions of sendmail
released every year. There were 3 versions in December and January
alone. :-)
-Tom
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