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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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