Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 02:55:23 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off topic mostly SMTP question Message-ID: <20000219025523.F14406@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20000218230003.J444@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk on Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:00:03PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002171123300.13651-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> <20000218154117.B6630@hades.hell.gr> <20000218230003.J444@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:00:03PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 11:24:41AM -0500, Steve Hovey wrote:
> >
> >> I know if you have a dial up that wants to use SMTP to gate their
> >> email, that if they have a static IP you can set it for ETRN to
> >> kick their spool.
> >>
> >> Is there any known kludge for supporting smtp for a dialup without
> >> a static IP?
> >
> > Yeap, sendmail calls it SMART_HOST, qmail calls it smtproutes, but
> > the general idea is to push the mail to your ISP's mail server and
> > let *it* handle the load :)
>
> ... and Exim calls it the domainlist router.
"I always keep learning" ((C) Socrates, 300- B.C)
> Anyway, I think you misunderstand. Steve wants to use SMTP to deliver
> mail *to* a dynamic IP dialup, if I'm reading his message right.
Ah well, then what Steve wants is probably fetchmail's multidrop mode.
Steve, you can get fetchmail from the ports, at mail/fetchmail.
The manual page of fetchmail can help you understand how multidrop mode
works, but it is also full of warnings against it's usage.
I haven't used it until now, but it's supposed to be an easy way to
setup fetchmail to grab the mail froma single {pop|imap|other} account
and push it through the local smtp daemon's queue to multiple local
users.
Another way of doing this is to get the entire mail box through pop/imap,
and then use procmail to split the mail from the single pop folder and
forward it to the local smtp daemon's queue to the proper local user.
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