From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 23 11:53:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA25362 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 11:53:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.aros.net (mailhub.aros.net [205.164.111.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA25327 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 11:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terra.aros.net (terra.aros.net [205.164.111.10]) by mailhub.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) with ESMTP id NAA25326; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:17:27 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA24458; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:52:52 -0600 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199608231852.MAA24458@terra.aros.net> Subject: Re: mail storage To: alk@think.com (Tony Kimball) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:52:50 -0600 (MDT) Cc: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net, sckhoo@asiapac.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608231754.MAA04591@compound.Think.COM> from "Tony Kimball" at Aug 23, 96 12:54:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Or better yet, run: sendmail '-qI' so you're only processing the mail that's actually supposed to go to them when they set off the trigger. -Dave Andersen Lo and behold, Tony Kimball once said: > > Quoth Michael L. VanLoon on Fri, 23 August: > : They probably just want you to run sendmail with a frequent retry. > : They could connect to you, dumping mail out, and your sendmail daemon > : should retry often enough to see that they are there and start dumping > : mail back to them. > > Why not just write a tiny little inetd service to run > sendmail -q when you get a packet from their server? > A 5 minute perl hack. The corresponding NT client > can also be a 5 minute perl hack. > > > -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'."