Mail store and forward gateway setup

[Joachim F. Selinger]

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Hi Brian!

On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:46:22, Brian Morrison wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:01:07 +0100 (MET), Joachim F. Selinger wrote:
>>I tried sendmail 8.x.x but it always does nslookups when doing anything 
>>even when started with -ODeliveryMode=d meaning defered mode. It 
>>normally should then only store the mail in the queue directory and wait
>>until I send the mail off with
>>sendmail -q
>Is the DNS lookup causing your machine to dial on demand? I have a
>sendmail setup that I used for several years that did what you want,
>but I had no DoD arrangement on my machine. I now use Weasel instead of
>sendmail, I found the IBM sendmail OK (equivalent to 8.6.11) but the
>ports of 8.9.x have given me trouble in one way or another.
>If you don't have DoD I suggest trying what I was using. Let me know, I
>will forward you the packages I based my setup on.

I just installed weasel and find it very satisfactory, especially with 
the optional store option until offline.

The only thing I wish is for an easier way to handle the deletion of the
'online' file that tells weasel to go offline again. I would think it 
fortiutious to set up a pipe that one can use to tell weasel to go off 
line or online. 

My dial-up connection uses ISDNPM and I use the timeout function so it 
shuts down automatically after some time to save phone costs. I have no 
function or script that is called when this happens so I wouldn't know 
when to delete the 'online' file again. Creating it is easy enough when 
the dialing sets up the ip configuration.

Any help on how you use it?

Thanks for the excellent recommendation!

Thanks also to the others for their suggestions. It seems weasel is 
pretty much what I need!

Jocki

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