From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jun 15 04:18:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA06135 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 04:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ez.eznetwork.com ([206.149.144.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA06130 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 04:18:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ericson.encs.com ([207.182.103.49]) by ez.eznetwork.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA01308; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 19:22:08 -0700 Message-ID: <33A3CEB4.24D1@eznetwork.com> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 04:15:00 -0700 From: Suk Tsang Reply-To: suk@eznetwork.com Organization: ENCS X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dave@illumen.net CC: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email store-and-forward + SMTP finger References: <339DB082.46D1@illumen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dave Richards wrote: > > Hi All, > I've heard that sendmail can be configured to do store-and-forward of > email for people/orgs who have a mail server without a full time > internet connection. example: company with a mail server in-house and a > dialup ISDN line. I know POP3 could be used in a situation like this but > alot of folks are asking for store-and-forward these days. Is this > right? Does anyone know where to start? A search of the FreeBSD mailing > list archives turned a blank. > bah bah bah ... Let me point you in the right direction: Go to www.sendmail.org, under the FAQ, read the "Virtual Hosting ..." page, pick up just that part you want. Don't miss the "etrn.pl" thing, although the syntax shown there is incorrect. Check out the FreeBSD handbook, try the online one. Under "Electronic Mail: FAQ:How can I ... PPP host?", at the end of the outdated material there is a neat trick you may want to use.