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[hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)]

On 8 September 2006, at 11:45, Jerold McAllister wrote:

> hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) writes:
>> I'm old school. Back in my day, we didn't have the Internet we  
>> have  today, and our UNIX boxes could mail over the network we had  
>> strung.  I don't care what mail app I use. I just want to be able  
>> to have two  boxes, boxbox and snowy, for example, and be able to  
>> 'mail boxbox'  from snowy and vice versa. This has to be on a  
>> system-wide basis, so  people on my shell server can do it easily.  
>> Any ideas? A quick tutorial?
>> -- 
>> hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
>
> If you have some network connection between the two boxes (and any  
> others)
> Just follow the handbook and set up sendmail on each.   If you do  
> not want
> Email from anywhere else, then set it up to accept mail connections  
> only
> from those two boxen.
> You don't need any of the other fancy stuff out there unless you  
> see some
> feature that you just gotta have.

So, as long as I set up sendmail and one host knows the other's name  
and can resolve it, it will Just Work™?

> ////jerry
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-- 
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)

<svinx> yknow when you go to a party, and everyones hooked up except  
one guy and one girl
<svinx> and so they look at each other like.. do we have to?
<svinx> intel & nvidia must be lookin at each other like that right now


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