You would need a static IP address. Your ISP would need to set up DNS
records to make you the primary MX (Mail eXchanger) record and his server
the secondary MX record. You would need to write a script that would make a
telnet session to the SMTP server that your ISP would set up as the
backup/secondary mail server for you. After setting up that SMTP session
you would need to issue the "ETRN @yourdomainname.com" command. You would
have to time the dial up connection so that it would coincide with the queue
processing time set up in your IMIAL server. This may all sound a bit
complicated but once set up and running it is pretty low maintenance. If
some of this seems "Greek" then forward it to your ISP as a starting point
and he should be able to tell you if he can support it on his end. After
that repost the details that don't make sense and I will try to clarify.
One other thing is that there are some "smart-pop" gateways that folks on
this list have mentioned that work with IMAIL. I don't use any of that
stuff but some folks say it is easier, so you may want to repost a more
specific question about just that.
Good Luck
-V
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark L. McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 5:36 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Evaluating IMail for internal use
> Hi, first let me apologize in advance, I'm new to email administration...
> I'm not an IMAIL user yet. I'm evaluating it as a replacement for
> MSMail.
> We are a fairly small company with about 100 users. We are very
> centralized, and only allow internet access (via modem) to a few key
people.
> We had been using MS-Mail & Work Group Post Office for internal e-mail,
> but I guess MS has abandoned it to sell Exchange Server.
> To make a long story shorter, MSMail &WGPO was free and did all we
really
> needed; can I justify IMAIL based on what we may eventually do with it?
> My initial testing looks very promising, but I'm lost among all the bells
> and whistles.
> Would any of them help me set up a sort of an internal/internet e-mail
> gateway?
> I was thinking that all mail to any external domain (anything but our
single
> internal one) would go to a queue and wait. Then about once per hour it
> would establish a dial-up connection with the outside world, flush the
> outbound queue and collect incoming messages.
> Is that impossible?
> Any input would be appreciated.
>
> -Mark
>
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