Would fetchmail fit the bill? [email protected] wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Nathan Hruby wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I just suffered an outage to my home Inernet server that looked like >it >>> was going to last for a week or so, and started to scramble to >figure out >>> how to set something up so that my home mail server (which could >reach the >>> Internet via a cell card) could receive e-mail. The phone company >>> surprised me by showing up thursday when they scheduled for >saturday, so >>> the issue became less pressing, but I want to get this figured out >and >>> documented for the next time I have an issue. >>> >>> Several years ago I setup a non-profit with a dial-up internet >connection >>> and had the e-mail server connect out via UUCP to a server with >full-time >>> connectivity for the e-mail delivery, and that worked well. >>> >>> so can anyone point me at a document for how to configure inbound >e-mail >>> connectivity to a site that has intermittent Internet access from >>> unpredictable addresses? Is there a better way to do this than the >UUCP >>> approach I used in the past? >> >> Sounds like you want a Backup MX service: >> >> http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/backupmx.html > >not really, while that will let me ride out an outage (as long as it's >less than 10 days), it won't let me rig up temporary network access and > >process my mail. > >With my home outage, I was able to reconfigure my firewall to route >through a laptop with a Sprint Cell card to get out to the Internet, >but >that connection is going to be intermittent and I may get a different >Ip >address each time I connect out. So I can't redirect my MX record to >point >at it, but I could connect out through this connection and connect to a > >mail server and pull messages from it. > >This is what I referred to doing in the past, the Internet connected >mail >server was the MX destination, but then I would connect to it via UUCP >every hour or so and pull down all pending mail and process it >normally. > >David Lang >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
