From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Aug 25 18:57:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA07818 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 18:57:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from npc.haplink.co.cn ([202.96.192.53]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA07704 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 18:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from xiyuan@localhost) by npc.haplink.co.cn (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA05069; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:02:14 GMT Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:02:14 GMT From: xiyuan qian Message-Id: <199608261002.KAA05069@npc.haplink.co.cn> To: alk@think.com, michaelv@MindBender.serv.net Subject: Re: mail storage Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org 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. Can you drop me some details? Best regaurds! --xiyuan