[OpenIndiana-discuss] Email cron job results

[Hugh McIntyre]

On 5/28/13 7:55 AM, James Carlson wrote:
> On 05/28/13 10:35, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>> I think you meant /etc/aliases is a symlink to mail/aliases.
>> There are other options, like a NIS aliases map; but I'll leave that to someone that's used them to expand on.
>
> Although I like centralized administration a lot, I'd hesitate for this
> service.  If (or "when") your NIS servers become unreachable, your mail
> server becomes either sluggish or dead.  There are some things for which
> rsync is a simpler and more reliable solution.  :-/

For mail, a good solution for centralized administration is that all but 
one system can be configured to forward all of their mail to a single 
"mailhost" system, and then only the single "real" mailhost needs to 
know about the aliases.

Provided you don't need to have a mailbox like "root" to go to different 
users based on system.

Hugh.