From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Aug 24 11:58:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA22938 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:58:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (root@mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA22932 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA05256; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:52:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608241852.LAA05256@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Tony Kimball cc: sckhoo@asiapac.net, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail storage In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 23 Aug 96 12:54:37 -0500. <199608231754.MAA04591@compound.Think.COM> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:52:48 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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. :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------