From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 11:11:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15785 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 11:11:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15734 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 11:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id LAA05186; Wed, 20 May 1998 11:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 11:11:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: mike grommet cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of Freebsd machine as a dial up mail server? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 May 1998, mike grommet wrote: > #1 It must be able to disconnect on some sort of idle timer? say 5 > minutes or so idle time? Yes. PPP has a setting for this. > #2 its going to have a local network ip number on his network (192.0.2.1 > or somesuch) but must "acquire" another internet type ip address when he > dials in... I dont see why this would be a problem, but I want to make sure? Works fine. > is there a method I can use to "kick" the mail server into sending to my > clients machine upon connect or am I forced to wait until sendmail > reprocesses the queue? either way is acceptable, but the first is > preferred of course. Run a script to issue an ETRN. Or use UUCP over TCP. I prefer UUCP. > Its just _got_ to be more reliable than what hes using, as what he is > using doesnt work well at all... Use decent hardware and it will run forever unattended. (well, months or years anyway :) Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message