The standard way for doing a store and forward like this is to use ETRN.
Currently, iMS does not support ETRN but if this is a required feature then
we can implement this in 2.0. If you need to have some of this
functionality right now then you can probably set something up where the
dial-up sends mail to a special address to begin the mail transfer. Here's
how this would work:
- receive mail for dial-up client
- store mail in a special database (don't send the mail to the POST Server)
- remote dial-up connects and sends mail to special address
- iMS SMTP Server calls a special template that takes all the stored mail
and sends it to the iMS POST Server for sending to the dial-up system.
This is pretty much how ETRN works - the store and forward server stores the
mail until the dial-up server connects to the server via ETRN.
Regards,
Howie
Howie Hamlin
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kym Kovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: inFusion Support List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 8:13 PM
Subject: [iMS] A "Relay?" question, I have a hole in my knowledge
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a question as to the best way to implement a "store and forward"
> type of service. We have a hosting client that has brought with them a
> bunch of "sub clients" and their full domains, but most of these subs have
> their own mail servers. In most cases we are just pointing our DNS to
their
> mail servers but some are dial-up type folk who want to be able to collect
> a pool of stored mail waiting for them.
>
> We have used a forwarding technique before for a couple of clients in the
> past and they collect their mail via POP, what we called a "collector" in
> our version of FusionMail. What we need now is a mechanism to let the POST
> server send a bundle of mails when the remote SMPT server comes on line.
>
> I thought of just dumping the mail into the POST queue but this could load
> it down rather badly as it kept retrying until the server appeared.
>
> Has anyone implemented something like this?
>
>
>
> --
>
> Yours,
>
> Kym
>
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