SMTP Not Working

John Thompson pmmail@rpglink.com
Sat, 25 Sep 1999 10:04:53 -0500 (CDT)


On Sat, 25 Sep 1999 08:34:31 -0600, Dave Serls wrote:

>  I used OS/2 sendmail 2.02 for about a year and a half, as my MTA, while online
>  to a dialup ISP.  When offline, a secondary MX record would cause delivery to
>  a 'domain-wide' POP box at the ISP.  This arrangement worked wonderfully, but eventually,
>  longer online sessions proved vulnerable to occasional relay attempts, not from commercial
>  SPAMMers, as far as I could tell.   For the POP box, I hacked a version of souper.exe to
>  download the contents and divine the recipient user-id from the prime 'Received:' line,
>  much as 'fetchmail' does on Unix systems.

"fetchmail" has also been ported to
OS/2:

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/mail/util/fetchmail-4.3.7-os2r1
zip