Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 12:25:55 +0000 From: Andy Cowan <andyc@waverider.net.uk> To: Rob Simons <rob@xs1.simplex.nl>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Cc: rob@xs1.simplex.nl Subject: Re: Exchange Server getting email Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970228122554.007f9100@waverider.net.uk>
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At 20:10 27/02/97 +0100, Rob Simons wrote: > >Hi, > >Some of my customers want to receive email with their MS Exchange server. >They're running the IMC (Internet Mail connector) to receive and send >mail. Sending mail is no problem, the machine will just make a connection >when needed (though they wonder if it's possible to queue the mail till >a certain time). Receiving mail is another matter. There's no built-in >support for contacting a provider and getting email. >I've heard that the easiest way is to schedule a mail messages to be >sent on fixed times to a special account on the provider's box, and that >should trigger the sending of queued mail for that domain. > >I've got FreeBSD boxes running 2.1.x, and was wondering what to do to set >up such a mail-account as a generic solution for MS Exchange customers. >If there's a better way to fix this, please let me know as well. > What terminal servers are you using? We use the annex, and it's relatively easy to hack the server code to cause it to run a job when particular users log in - I would have thought (although I have no experience of it) that you could get Radius to do something similar. We just run a sendmail -qRfoo.com when exchange users dial in. Andy Andy Cowan Tel: 01564 795888 Technical Director Fax: 01564 795177 Wave Rider Internet plc http://www.waverider.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------
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