From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 28 04:31:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA24391 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 04:31:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from destiny.waverider.co.uk (destiny.waverider.co.uk [194.207.28.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA24386 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 04:31:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from zephania.waverider.net.uk (zephania.waverider.net.uk [194.207.28.99]) by destiny.waverider.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id LAA19243; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:27:01 GMT Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970228122554.007f9100@waverider.net.uk> X-Sender: andyc@waverider.net.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 12:25:55 +0000 To: Rob Simons , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Andy Cowan Subject: Re: Exchange Server getting email Cc: rob@xs1.simplex.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------