Installation to Clients

ZMailer: The Manual; v1.99.20
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# Chapter 6. Installation to Clients

This section describes the installation at clients.

# 6.1. Required Files

The following files/programs are needed on clients:

`/etc/zmailer.conf`

  The `$MAILSERVER` variable may be set to the mail server host's name. This is not required as mailq will usually be able to discover this by itself.

`/usr/lib/sendmail`

  to submit mail

mailq

  should be installed in the site's local `bin` so people can query the mail server. (Remember to update `/etc/services`)

`$`POSTOFFICE``

  This directory from the server should be mounted and writable.

# 6.2. Mounting `$MAILBOX`es and/or `$POSTOFFICE/` Hierarchies via NFS

This is mostly for client machines, but the NFS may plaque you also at servers.

If you for some obscure reason are mounting `$`MAILBOX``es and/or `$`POSTOFFICE`` hierarchies via NFS, do it with options to disable various attribute caches:

                  actimeo=0
        alias:    noac

The best advice is to NOT to mount anything over NFS, but some people can't be persuaded...

Lots of things are done where file attributes play important role, and they are extremely important to be in sync! (Sure, the ```noac`' slows down the system, but avoids errors caused by bad attribute caches.)

If you are mounting people's home directories (`~/.forward` et al.) via NFS, consider the same rule!

Often if the mail folder directory is shared, also one of following (depending upon the system):

       /usr/mail
       /usr/spool/mail
       /var/mail
       /var/spool/mail

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