On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:38:20PM -0400, Discussion list for OpenIndiana wrote: > Discussion list for OpenIndiana <[email protected]> > writes: > > > > Local delivery only takes place on the central server, if that's what > > you mean. It's a benefit to have all the messages in one place. > > Lets say something on localhost requiring admin attention happens and > mail is sent to my user on localhost to let her know. Are you saying > that mail will appear on the relay machine... not on the localhost?
Yes, that's correct. The clients all forward e-mail to the central server. Mailboxes only exist on the central server too. This is a benefit because you only have to look in one place for messages. > I'm probably tangling things up that do not work together but I was > under the notion that if a fetchmail process running on localhost > reached out to a pop3 somewhere....then local sendmail becomes > involved delivering to the localhost user. So, would the sendmail > running on localhost in your plan, see it, ignore it, deliver it > somewhere else... or what. With the configuration I suggested, you'd also run fetchmail on the central server. You could run it on a client, but the e-mail would be forwarded to the central server anyway. > Or in yet another scenario... my user on localhost sends a message to > someone at a remote location. Will any response come back to my user > on localhost? Probably not.... eh? It will be delivered to the central server -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
