Well the current status is that I *think* the mail is fixed, but I'm not
too sure about the ISDN dial-on-demand....
I'll check the logs in the morning to see what is happenning over night.
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> You want your system to be the primary MX for your domain.
Check.
> You want your ISP's mailhost to be a secondary MX.
Check.
> Your ISP's mailhost should be configured
> to accept mail for your domain.
Check.
> Now your ISP's mailhost will accept and queue mail for your system when it
> is down. It will retry however often it is configured to do so, so mail
> should eventually get through, regardless. To speed things up, you can send
> an ETRN command to your ISP's mailhost. That will tell their MTA to retry
> your domain's mail queue immediately.
That's the plan.
> To do so, you can use fetchmail, something like this:
>
> fetchmail --protocol ETRN --smtphost your-domain.com mailhost.your-isp.com
Actually I made a quick script to issue ETRN manually and tossed it into
cron.hourly. That *should* prompt the dial-on-demand where fetchmail
would probably time out before the connection is established unless I
made fetchmail's timeout fairly high...
> Hope this helps,
Actually it did, but more as a confirmation than as instructions...
As for the dial-on-demand, I added the demand option to /etc/ppp/options
and specified a bogus IP pair for the local and remote then added the
option to accept any IP pair the RAS assigns. Since it dialled out fine
on it's own before, I hope it will dial OK still. I nix'd the ping -i
300 that I had running with /etc/ppp/ip-up.local
I'll post the results after work tomorrow, including if it worked and if
not, what it did...
Thanks,
Brian
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