On Thursday 02 October 2003 08:35, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Thies mean, the use of courier-mta is not recommended for Dial-Out. > Other Solution ? > Back to exim ?
Well I can't speak for exim, but we use courier on several dial-out sites and it works wonderfully. One site has been running courier unattended for a year with absolutely no problems. The only time I ever have to touch courier is when I ssh into the server to upgrade it or add/delete accounts. Put "1d" into the file /etc/courier/warntime and "3d" (or however long you want to keep trying) into the file /etc/courier/queuetime and you won't get any warning messages unless a message stays in the queue for over 1 day. Put a bigger number into warntime than is in queuetime and you'll never get delivery delayed messages, just failure messages (which you probably want). Courier will try to deliver the mail immediately and this will result in a log entry of the failure, but that's really not a big deal IHMO. Put a time interval larger than 1 hour (or however often you connect) into retryalpha and it will only try once. Then run "courier flush" when the link comes up (/etc/ppp/ip-up.local for pppd under linux - don't know about others) and all your mail will get sent when you're connected. Once you get it set up the way you want you don't need to touch it again. If you're relaying all your mail through an ISP's smtp relay then I also have a patch which makes courier send just one copy of each message to the smart relay regardless of who the recipients are. Presently courier uses a different outgoing queue for each mail host. So if you sent a message to someone at hotmail.com and someone at yahoo.com, then the message would actually get sent to your ISP's relay twice - once from the hotmail.com queue and once from the yahoo.com queue. Sending it once to the smart relay will shorten your connection time - a good thing for those of us who pay for time connected. :-) Let me know if you want a copy. Jeff Jansen ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
