Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:06:06 -0500 (CDT) From: "Tom T. Thai" <tomthai@future.net> To: Dave Richards <dave@illumen.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email store-and-forward + SMTP finger Message-ID: <Pine.BSD.3.91.970610160321.1043D-100000@dream.future.net> In-Reply-To: <339DB082.46D1@illumen.net>
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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Dave Richards wrote: > Hi All, > I've heard that sendmail can be configured to do store-and-forward of > email for people/orgs who have a mail server without a full time > internet connection. example: company with a mail server in-house and a > dialup ISDN line. I know POP3 could be used in a situation like this but > alot of folks are asking for store-and-forward these days. Is this > right? Does anyone know where to start? A search of the FreeBSD mailing > list archives turned a blank. Hmm.. we have been doing UUCP for this.. maybe I'm missing something? Does POP3 allow for different email accounts dumped to one "account?" And how does the other end parse it out? The way we have it setup with the above ISDN dialup deal is they dialup, do some stuff.. what ever.. UUCP at certain times also dials up and pull in mail/news. > Store. Your ISP's mail server must be configured to store your mail for > you. Default Sendmail behaviour is to attempt resends with > specific intervals and eventually give up unless it happened to try to > send while your connection was up. This will obviously not work > reliably in a dial-up environment. Since Sendmail can be painful to set > up in the first place, many providers give up at the prospect of > setting it to store mail. Infact, there are versions of Sendmail that > simply can not be configured for this but instead need to be re-written. > > Forward. Your ISP's mail server (FingerHost) must be configured to > listen to the finger port (79) for a specific commandstring > (FingerCommand). This would be your mail server's way of alerting the > ISP to make it send stored mail in to your local SMTP server. Both the > FingerHost and FingerCommand should be provided by your Internet > provider. It is fairly common practice to use the mailhost > (MailServerIP) as FingerHost and your Internet domain name (acme.com) as > FingerCommand, but it is entirely up to your provider. Also, your > provider might give you the finger information on the format > fingercommand@fingerhost. > > ================================================================ > > ..any help or direction would be greatly appreciated! > > -- > sincerely, > Dave > > ************************************************************ > David A Richards Systems Integrator > The illumen Group, Inc. http://www.illumen.com > Email mailto:dar@illumen.com > Personal Web http://www.illumen.com/~dar > ************************************************************ > .............. .................................... Thomas T. Thai Infomedia Interactive Communications tom@iic.net TEL 612.376.9090 * FAX 612.376.9087
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