Hi This was a while ago before we got an all singing all dancing T1 connection installed and we had to rely on isdn which I used for the mail retrieval. - it went something like this (from very rusty memory do forgive mistakes)
Rasdial (connection you want) Wait ( this is another util that is useful for pausing the batch file so that it has time to make the link) etrn /address=mail.myisp.net /port=SMTP /ehlo=mail.mydomain.co.uk /etrn="@mydomain.co.uk, @mynextdomain.com" /auto /min Then disconnect the ras connection and you should be in business /address=<mail server> Address of mail server to send ETRN command to /port=<port> Port to send command to. Usually SMTP (25) /ehlo=<domain> EHLO command argument (identification domain) /etrn=<domain list> ETRN command argument (domains to run queue for) /auto If specified, run ETRN when etrn.exe started /min If specified, run etrn.exe in a minimized window You can download etrn here http://www.magpage.com/magpage/helpdesk/etrn.exe Cheers Simon -----Original Message----- From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 October 2001 12:12 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 & dialup Simon - Would you post the batch file process you outlined below? Steve Clark Clark Systems Support, LLC AVIEN Charter Member "Who's watching your network?" www.clarksupport.com 301-610-9584 voice 240-465-0323 Efax -----Original Message----- From: Simon Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 6:48 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 & dialup Hi Lyle I have had a similar situation where I used a util called etrn which polls the store and forward server for you - I just put this into a batch file which did the dialup and then ran this - you give it a host and port to connect to and shibang it goes off and gets it. After looking there is an MS solution aswell, but the above is wonderfully simple. The MS solution is under http://support.microsoft.com/support/exchange/content/whitepapers/dialupims. asp Hope this is what you are looking for. Cheers Simon -----Original Message----- From: Lyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 October 2001 02:50 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 5.5 & dialup I had tried at the Microsoft forums and got nothing back. I thought I would try here. If anyone feels this is off topic, please just ignore<GRIN>! A new client called with a SBS server with everything installed. They are a K-8 grade school and have little money. It was installed as part of a network and they wanted email out of all of this. There is an ISP that does 'store & forward' so they could do this via a dialup parttime connection. They are also using this server as a proxy server for shared websurfer. It's a busy little server. It's also setup for multilink connection using two USR modems to the ISP. I updated NT to sp6a and exchange 5.5 to sp4. I turned off IIS on the public IP addresses also. I got most of it running well, but one part. It appears that after a while, mail will get stuck in the IMC with a message stating that it cann't resolve the name for the host. I setup the proxy to be 'on' or availible from 6am to 6pm M-F only. I setup the IMC to poll for mail every 4 hours for 15 minutes. The store & forward routine at the ISP should poll for the mail server in about a 10 minute cycle for mail inbound to this server. I found the server once dialed up but the dialup was not passing traffic and there were messages stuck in the queue. I brought up the dialup monitor and dropped the dialups. They dialed back up and mail was flowing. Any suggestions? I am at a lose here on what to do next?? Thanks, Lyle List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
