Re: sendmail on dialup LAN

[Paul Gampe <paulg@example.com>]

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Craig Oda wrote:

craig> [snipped]
craig>on an ISP's mail server.  The problem occurs when I want to
craig>read my mail.  I have to wait for the sendmail on the remote
craig>ISP server to start sending mail to my Linux server.  This
craig>occurs a few minutes after the dialup LAN connection
craig>is established. 

Hi Craig,

A package has been developed that was designed to handle this situation.
It requires the ISP to be running at least sendmail 8.7.5+, perl and a
modified finger daemon.  

In summary using sendmail's new mailertables it creates a new mailer
called BSMTP (Batch SMTP) which is associated with your domain on the ISP
side.  If you are online then the message is delivered immediately,
otherwise it is stored in a separate queue.  Then when you connect you
finger a specific account to trigger delivery of the queue.  

Did you want to give it a go ?? :-).

Paul.

craig>I want to force sendmail on my system to
craig>check the mail for my domain (farm.twics.com) on demand without
craig>having to wait for the remote server to send the mail.  The
craig>few minutes delay is an inconvenience.  I have several sendmail
craig>books which I have not read yet.  I was just wondering if anyone
craig>knew the answer off the top of their heads?
craig>
craig>Regards,
craig>Craig
craig>
craig>
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