From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 17:22:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E47137BB48 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:22:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat54.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.246]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id DAA30696 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 03:21:45 +0200 Received: (qmail 16104 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Feb 2000 00:55:24 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 02:55:23 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Steve Hovey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off topic mostly SMTP question Message-ID: <20000219025523.F14406@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <20000218154117.B6630@hades.hell.gr> <20000218230003.J444@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i 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 +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message