[email protected] wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Brad Knowles wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Jim Hickstein wrote: > > > >> Whatever happened to ETRN? > >> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_SMTP#ETRN > > > > Indeed. Both sendmail and postfix (and presumably also at least some > > other MTAs) allow you to set queueing periods on a per-domain or > > per-recipient basis (or some mix thereof), and you can set the queue > > retry to be a very extended period of time -- even infinite, if you > > desire. > > > > Running this on a backup MX server would definitely serve the same > > purpose as UUCP. It does require some configuration support on the part > > of the operator of the backup MX, but that's about it. > > this definantly sounds like an option (and the possibility of this is why > I was asking for other options besides UUCP)
Except ETRN won't work if your temporary Internet connection is using a different IP address, unless you also get the backup MX to resolve your normal DNS name to the temporary IP. ETRN just tells the SMTP server to start processing the queue for the specified domain, and the SMTP server connects back to the usual address(es) to deliver to that domain. It does not deliver over the same connection over which the ETRN command was issued. -- Hello World. David Bronder - Systems Admin Segmentation Fault ITS-EI, Univ. of Iowa Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm. [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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/
