Remote Mail Host

A remote mail host is another host through which sendmail routes all outgoing mail. When your system is connected to the network, mail will take an extra hop to the mail host before it is delivered. When your system is disconnected, a remote mail host provides automatic queueing of new mail messages until the network is reconnected. This means you can still compose and "send" mail messages when disconnected. The messages will be delivered to the remote mail host shortly after reconnection.

Configuring the Remote Mail Host

To configure a remote mail host, in /etc/inet/hosts, append the word mailhost to an entry that specifies a permanently networked host. The mail host can be any host that is always available to the core network that the SPARCstation Voyager is usually connected to. See the last line in Example 5-1 for an example specification of a mail host.