On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 04:13:19PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: > I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system. > Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep > on all our instructional machines. I found that this caused smail to > grind to a halt. Apparently smail doesn't create dbm files when > newaliases is run. > > Would qmail be a better alternative as a MTA? If it can resolve > aliases faster it would certainly help. I would prefer not to install > sendmail unless absolutely necessary. My memories of trying to > configure sendmail are not pleasant memories.
Well, smail can use a DBM file as an alias file. Take a look at /etc/smail/directors and the smaildrct(5) manpage. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
