From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Apr 25 21:06:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA03248 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 21:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA03238 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 21:06:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA10164; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 00:07:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 00:06:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" cc: Josef Karthauser , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMTP gateway clients In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970425220556.00b1f020@mixcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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..