Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:52:48 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Tony Kimball <alk@think.com> Cc: sckhoo@asiapac.net, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail storage Message-ID: <199608241852.LAA05256@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 23 Aug 96 12:54:37 -0500. <199608231754.MAA04591@compound.Think.COM>
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>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.
Well, that's OK too. My main point was that UUCP was not the solution
to their problem. :-)
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