Hey there, you could try postix: 1. use it's sendmail binary so you don't have a daemon ruuning
2. take a look here about how to configure postfix to defer delivery: http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#dialup 3. write a short script, call it, say, dumpmail, called with dumpmail ispname dumpmail does the following: 1. looks up ispname in a table and from that table discovers the smtp server to use (ispname doesn't have to be an isp of course, it could be office, bills_office, clientx_office etc) 2. runs postconf to change the "relayhost" in /etc/postfix/main.cf then runs postfix reload to load the new config 3. runs sendmail -q to dump the mail to the smtp server of choice. You can run it manually when you plug into a network, or with a bit more work you can make it run automatically when your interface comes up. On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:15:08 +1300 Tom Eastman wrote: > Stroller wrote: > > Set "relayhost" on the laptop to be your home mail server, then. You'll > > need to setup Postfix on the laptop to authenticate & do SSL but it's > > easily done. > > > > Stroller. > > > > Hmm some interesting ideas, thanks! I also found something called > 'nullmailer' > which sounds like it works in a way similar to Stroller's description of the > apple mailer. But I think it's a daemon, which wants to be running. > > I *do* have a home server which is running SMTP, it accepts email from my > LAN, > but not the outside world. Running postfix but haven't looked into learning > how > to set up SMTP authentication. > > Unfortunately, that wouldn't help anyway since at work, where I tend to plug > my > laptop in, I'm firewalled off from my home server. > > Ah, well, I'll keep digging :-) > > Tom > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
