From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 27 04:26:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA03817 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 04:26:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA03794 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 04:25:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (beBop) id WAA21823; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 22:55:12 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 22:55:12 +1030 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199701271225.WAA21823@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent), freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Exchange client Newsgroups: apana.sa.lists.freebsd-isp X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961020] Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <5bbs3l$821$1@al.imforei.apana.org.au> you wrote: : > to have 207.51.167.3 handle its mail, so when sendmail processes its que, : > it would seem that it would try to send the mail right back to itself. : I recall reading about a new control line in sendmail which : you can tell it to deliver "direct" if you're the final MX : target for a domain/host and it isn't a local name. I don't : recall what it is, but that is probably the easiest method. I : use something slightly different. HELP ETRN 214-ETRN [ | @ | # ] 214- Run the queue for the specified , or 214- all hosts within a given , or a specially-named 214- (implementation-specific). Using both this and the suggestion that David suggested would be the best IMHO. Your host (freebsd workstation) is the primary MX which redirects mail to smtpgate.there.host which is queued when they are not connected. When they connect get them to stuff a ETRN at sendmail and watch it all start to flow. Its probably worth getting the sendmail book and reading up on queue management. The "new" version of the book should be out soon. If they say can't connect for a day or two you would then want to know how to stop everything bouncing. Its pretty much a must-have if your working with mail :) Regards, Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!