Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 22:05:57 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMTP gateway clients Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970425220556.00b1f020@mixcom.com>
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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. ;-) A few customers have wanted dial-up SMTP, but I'd not want to try the dynamic IP route. As is, one customer went from plain dial-up to dedicated for the problems on their end (also do to poor work from their consultant), which at least was not my problem. Still I did conference in several support calls and I found no end of humor in the fact that the tech from CCMail said SMTP on a non-dedicated connection is, well, discouraged. Personally I thought of something similar for one customer, but they didn't like the extra fee idea, even though I didn't name a price. 8-) ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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