Subject: Re: daily (& security) mail not delivered
To: Christian Limpach <chris@pin.lu>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/30/2003 16:55:22
> Quoting Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>:
> 
> > This is all quite disastrous on low-memory machines, I now need sendmail
> > running on my machine just to be able to redirect local root mail to 
> > myself (the main mail servers send root mail to the sysadmins), and that
> > daemon is wasting nearly a Meg of RAM and a process slot (according to 
> > 'top').  Postfix isn't any better in this regard.  It has something like
> > three daemons running in the basic dumb-client configuration.
> 
> you can set the MTAHost to your hub, add the low-memory machine's FQDN to 
> the hub's local-host-names (class w) and use a virtusertable to redirect 
> the mail:
>   root@low-mem.host address@to.redirect.to
> and possibly also:
>   @low-mem.host catchall@to.redirect.to
> or:
>   @low-mem.host %1@to.redirect.to

Er, I can change nothing on the hub, I have no administrative control over 
it.

R.