Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 00:06:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMTP gateway clients Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970426000534.3446C-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970425220556.00b1f020@mixcom.com>
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On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 01:51 PM 4/25/97 +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > >Not so, You can locally receive mail into a mailbox using sendmail, > >and then spawn a process that talks SMTP to send it to the customer > >when they log in and you know their ip address. > > > >Problems: > > * Remembering the envelope so that you can reconstruct it! > > * Cussing and swearing because end user Microsoft machine's > > have fun and games with dynamic Ip addresses and mail servers! :) > > This smells of a custom solution, which means there is a "how" and it takes > some work. There always is a how, but something special should cost the > customer for the time it takes. ;-) > I was wondering about the sendmail switch for doing smtp on the stdin and stdout - if it wasnt possible to invoke that with a run the queue for this domain jobber using a middleman to connect to the smtp on the dialer in. Hmm..
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