From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 27 13:30:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA19585 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:30:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA19580 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:30:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA12939; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 16:24:37 -0500 Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa14230; 27 Feb 97 16:30 EST Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 16:30:31 -0500 (EST) From: Steve To: Rob Simons cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exchange Server getting email In-Reply-To: <199702271910.UAA00767@xs1.simplex.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What I do is tell people to get a UUCP gateway program (I usually recommend spinmail because nobody ever calls me for help when they use it - http://www.spinmail.com - i think there is another one called tenfour but Im not sure the URL). This way they poll x number of times an hour or day and drop of and grab their mail via phone lines. On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Rob Simons wrote: > > Hi, > > Some of my customers want to receive email with their MS Exchange server. > They're running the IMC (Internet Mail connector) to receive and send > mail. Sending mail is no problem, the machine will just make a connection > when needed (though they wonder if it's possible to queue the mail till > a certain time). Receiving mail is another matter. There's no built-in > support for contacting a provider and getting email. > I've heard that the easiest way is to schedule a mail messages to be > sent on fixed times to a special account on the provider's box, and that > should trigger the sending of queued mail for that domain. > > I've got FreeBSD boxes running 2.1.x, and was wondering what to do to set > up such a mail-account as a generic solution for MS Exchange customers. > If there's a better way to fix this, please let me know as well. > > Regards, > > - Rob. > > /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\ > /* Rob Simons | rob@simplex.nl *\ > /* ------------ | ------------- | -------- | ------- *\ > /* Novell Netware System Operator | UNIX system operator *\ > /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\ >