From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Sep 5 13:23:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA29443 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 13:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bert.club-web.com (bert.club-web.com [207.176.196.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA29435 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 13:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from club-web.com (ernie.club-web.com [207.176.196.12]) by bert.club-web.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA04001; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:27:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <34106B39.8C5CC058@club-web.com> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 16:27:37 -0400 From: Mark Segal Organization: Club-Web Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02b7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Tom T. Thai" , isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Retrieve Mail via SMTP with an MS-Exchange Server References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tom T. Thai wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Mark Segal wrote: > > > > we are an ISP using FreeBSD boxes as server platform. Our > > > customers keep asking for a method to retrieve their email > > > from our server (SMTP/POP3) and distribute it in their local > > > network using MS-Exchange Server with a dialup connection to > > > their local ISP (or even MSN, CompuServe, ...) > > > > I have that running with what one of our clients. (were using sendmail > > he's using SlMail f/NT)... it's quite simple.. there is this a command > > how much is this package? I think $425US for the NT version, but to be sure visit their website at http://www.slmail.com. (and i think i'm also a reseller :). > > > that a server can issue to another one called "ETRN yourname.com". It > > basically tells the server to process the queue for "yourname.com". > > To get this working you: > > - assign them an IP, that will never be reachable, unless they dialin. > > - make it the primary mail exchanger for that domain. > > - make your secondary mail exchanger one of your boxes. > > how is the above too done? can you clarify? MX record? Yup, With MX records. ie IN MX 10 theirdomain.com. IN MX 20 yourdomain.com. > > > - get their MS-Exchange server to ETRN yours. > > So basically what this accomplishes, is all mail will never get the > > main server unless they are online, and when they are the tell your > > server to dump it's queue. -- Mark Segal mark@club-web.com System Administrator - Club-Web Inc.