From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 29 19:21:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10918 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc1.ccms.net (cc1.ccms.net [204.96.187.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10908 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aauu@ccms.net) Received: from ccms.net (aaweber@ppp44.ccms.net [204.96.187.144]) by cc1.ccms.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA10595 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 21:52:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35BFD87C.11073067@ccms.net> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 21:20:45 -0500 From: Alan Weber Organization: Personal X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Mail Buffering/Echo/Relay ?? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have our company mail arriving on a Linux Box in another city that is using QMAIL. Our local users are using win 95 and various clients netscape/outlook express/outlook/(eudora?) and dial-up ppp connections to the internet to retrieve their email. For various reasons users are losing/not getting their mail reliably. We are having to ask our clients/vendors to resend their mail multiple times (5 times recently). This is truly embarrasing and I want to find a way to resolve this problem. I am assuming that QMAIL is working reliably as I dont have any problem getting my mail from this server. I am thinking about putting FreeBSD on an old 486 and dialing the internet every half hour to poll for mail. I was going to use fetchmail with the keep option so we get a copy on the FreeBSD box and I can then look there for mail that is missing. Is there a better way to accomplish the goal of safekeeping/copying mail? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message