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<TITLE>Miscellaneous config Options</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="node207.html">Message Routing and Delivery</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="node205.html">Mail Delivery Modes</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION0016500000">Miscellaneous config Options</A></H1>
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<A NAME="smailoptions"></A>
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There are quite a number of options you may set in the config file,
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which, although useful, are not essential to running smail, and
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which we will not discuss here. Instead, we will only mention a
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few that you might find a reason to use:
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<DL><DT>error copy postmaster<DD> If this boolean variable is set, any error will
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generate a message to the postmaster. Usually, this is only
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done for errors that are due to a faulty configuration. The
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variable can be turned on by putting it in the config file,
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preceded by a plus (+).
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<DT>max hop count<DD> If the hop count for a message (i.e. the number of hosts
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already traversed) equals or exceeds this number, attempts at
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remote delivery will result in an error message being returned
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to the sender. This is used to prevent messages from looping
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forever. The hop count is generally computed from the number
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of Received: fields in the mail header, but may also be set
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manually using the -h option on the command line.
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This variable defaults to 20.
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<DT>postmaster<DD> The postmaster's address. If the address Postmaster cannot be resolved to a valid local address, then this is used as the last resort. The default is root.
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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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