From: Eric Allman Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1993 00:24:14 +0000 (-0800) Subject: document how FEATURE(nocanonify) interacts with FEATURE(nullclient) X-Git-Tag: BSD-4_4_Lite1-Snapshot-Development~1824 X-Git-Url: https://git.subgeniuskitty.com/unix-history/.git/commitdiff_plain/de0c51e7e9838c43cc5e5b05380f1eb54b81744c?ds=inline document how FEATURE(nocanonify) interacts with FEATURE(nullclient) SCCS-vsn: usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README 8.13 --- diff --git a/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README b/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README index 5ced004b1f..32bfc43092 100644 --- a/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README +++ b/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Eric Allman - @(#)README 8.12 (Berkeley) %G% + @(#)README 8.13 (Berkeley) %G% This document describes the sendmail configuration files being used @@ -368,11 +368,16 @@ nodns We aren't running DNS at our site (for example, nullclient This is a special case -- it creates a stripped down configuration file containing nothing but support for - forwarding all mail to a central hub. The argument - is the name of that hub. No other features should be - used, and no mailers need be defined -- this is all - implicit. The client always masquerades as the mail - hub. No aliasing or forwarding is done. + forwarding all mail to a central hub via a local + SMTP-based network. The argument is the name of that + hub. + + The only other feature that should be used in conjunction + with this one is "nocanonify" (this causes addresses to + be sent unqualified via the SMTP connection; normally + they are qualifed with the masquerade name, which + defaults to the name of the hub machine). No mailers + should be defined. No aliasing or forwarding is done. +-------+