Well. never mind. If anyone cares how I solved this keep reading.
An answer in the Linux world would be fetchmail, and there's a cygwin port of that somewhere. But as it turns out my requirements were overstated. For sending ETRN to this service, I don't need TLS and don't even need to authenticate. So I can vbs a very simple telnet session using appactivate & sendkeys. Carl From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 12:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Send ETRN on demand Have an Exchange (2003) server that is occasionally turned off. An external filtering/queuing service is used for inbound mail. The external service will accept an ETRN to initiate delivery of queued mail. I would like to run a program after bootup to send an ETRN to the service. I don't want to wait for an outbound message to get the ETRN out, and I don't want to send the ETRN at a particular time of day. That mean the built-in ETRN capability in Exchange 2003 is no help. Additionally, the program that sends the ETRN must use TLS for the SMTP connection. Googling has got me nowhere, so I figure I'd ask here if there were any scripts or widgets that do this. If this kind of thing is easily done with Exchange 2010, that might be useful information (adding points to the "should upgrade" basket). Thanks, Carl --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
