On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 01:27:16PM -0500, Ethan Snyder wrote:
> Hi everyone, another question about diald...
> In the office that i have the diald box setup in, most of the people use
> Outlook Express to check their e-mail. Well, outlook express seems to
> only send the request maybe 3 times when you click the "send and recieve
> button" then it spends a minute waiting for a reply. Netscape mail on
> the other hand, keeps on sending requests for mail until there is a
> reply. Whenever they first run outlook and send/recieve ...it makes the
> diald box dial out, well it will connect, but then outlook says "Could
> not find mailbox ..." and you click send/recieve again, and it works
> fine (because it's already connected and doesn't have to dial out)....Is
> there a way where i can get rid of the first error message from
> outlook? Do i need to use some sort of caching proggie, like squid?
You can't cache email like you do html.
Instead of trying to solve the problem the way you are, why don't you
run SMTP and POP/IMAP servers on the linux box and have your office
clients point their Outlooks at this box.
How does the mail get into the linux box, you say?
1. get your isp to give you a fixed IP address if you don't already have
one.
2. get you isp to to enter a primary MX line for your domain pointing to the linux box
and a secondary MX line pointing to their mail server
3. run a cron script which connects to the isp and tells their MTA to
send the mail for your domain. an ETRN to their MTA is easiest if they
support it. Fetchmail can to this or you could write a short script to
handle it. Otherwise you could use expect to send a command like
sendmail -r <your domain>
4. You're done.
This is one of the easiest and best ways to get mail into a network with
an intermittent connection to the Internet.
Now your users get their mail from the linux box at LAN speeds, and you
don't have to worry about timeouts and other irritations.
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