Hi Ethan, hi Gyepi, it's also possible to use dynamic ip-adresses and to use fetchmail / sendmail / Pop-Server. I managed to get e-Mail for several Accounts via my ISP with dynamic IP-Adresses. This how I've done it: 1. Setup a DNS Server 2. Setup fetchmail to poll the e-Mails 3. Setup Sendmail to queue messages and to only make name lookups when initializing. There's a good Web Page for it at... hmm lets see... Somebody already mentioned this site... Ah there it is: http://www.harker.com/sendmail/smtpdemanddial.html 4. Setup Pop Server (I use popper) 5. Setup diald ip-up script to invoke fetchmail and make a sendmail -q (I have to do it in that order because my Mail provider wants me to authorize first via POP and then lets me send mail, in order to block spam mail) 6. Set up cron to make a kill -s SIGUSR1 �/sbin/pidof diald� whenever you want your mail fetched / sent. This way Mail is fetched and sent at given times and additional everytime somebody goes surfing. It may not be the perfect solution but it works fine for me. Hope it helps regards Tim -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Gyepi SAM [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Sonntag, 19. September 1999 22:51 An: Ethan Snyder Cc: Diald MailingList Betreff: Re: Outlook Express/98 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. -- Gyepi Sam --+-- Designer/Programmer --+-- Network/System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] --+-- http://www.praxis-sw.com/gyepi question = ( to ) ? be : ! be; -- Wm. Shakespeare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
