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<TITLE>Setup for a LAN</TITLE>
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<A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR>
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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node201.html">Writing the Configuration Files</A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node198.html">Getting smail Up and </A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node199.html">UUCP Setup</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION0016200000">Setup for a LAN</A></H1>
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<A NAME="smaillan"></A>
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If you are running a site with two or more hosts connected by a LAN, you
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will have to designate one host that handles your UUCP connection with
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the outside world. Between the hosts on your LAN, you will most probably
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want to exchange mail with SMTP over TCP/IP. Assume we're back at the
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Virtual Brewery again, and vstout is set up as the UUCP gateway.
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In a networked environment, it is best to keep all user mailboxes on a
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single file system, which is NFS-mounted on all other hosts. This allows
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users to move from machine to machine, without having to move their mail
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around (or even worse, check some three or four machines for
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newly-arrived mail each morning). Therefore, you also want to make
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sender addresses independent from the machine the mail was written on.
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It is common practice to use the domain name all by itself in the sender
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address, instead of a hostname. Janet User, for example, would specify
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janet@vbrew.com instead of janet@vale.vbrew.com. We
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will explain below how to make the server recognize the domain name as a
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valid name for your site.
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A different way of keeping all mailboxes on a central host is to use
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POP or IMAP. POP stands for <em>Post Office Protocol</em> and lets
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users access their mailboxes over a simple TCP/IP connection. IMAP,
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the <em>Interactive Mail Access Protocol</em>, is similar to POP, but
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more general. Both clients and servers for IMAP and POP have been
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ported to , and are available from sunsite.unc.edu below
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/pub/Linux/system/Network.
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<P>
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<LI> <A HREF="node201.html#SECTION0016210000">Writing the Configuration Files</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node202.html#SECTION0016220000">Running smail</A>
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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