Mail store and forward gateway setup

[Jim Whitelaw]

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On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:01:07 +0100 (MET), Joachim F. Selinger wrote:

>From a Win95 PC (pc2) running PMMail 2000 I'd like to send mail to
>pc1 anytime, but actually send it to the internet only after a say so, 
>namely when I do connect anyway to fetch new mail.
>
>Receiving mail for pc2 is done nicely by a filter in PMMail and a local 
>pop3 daemon on pc1.
>
>Does anyone know how to accomplish this on OS/2? 

I had a similar situation once. I solved it with REXX. I wrote a little
script that implemented a minimal subset of the SMTP protocol. What it did
was just take the message, write it out to a temp file and then send the file
with the 'sendmail -f' syntax and remove it. When using the '-f' param,
sendmail doesn't choke when it can't complete a lookup on the recipient's
mail host - it just queues the message. Then later when the connection was
up, I used 'sendmail -q' to send out the queued mail. 

It's been years since I've used it, but I might have it archived on tape
somewhere, I'll have a look for you.



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