On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:47:20AM +0530, hizibiz wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Payal Rathod wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am setting up a (qmail) mail server for a friend in totally
> > non-computer industries. She wants local mailing and external mailing.
> > She is onslow dial-upwhich is not digital at all. In this circumstances
> > is it better to directly send mails to the desired recipents or it is
> > better to smarthost them thru' my ISP.
>
> I think smarthost mechanism should be the approach. would you have
> externally registered domain and individual email ids for each user ?
> then talk to your ISP for an incomming mail hold and relay service.
>
> otherwise there was a method of using your ISP provided singular email id
> to cater to serveral internal users depending on their names. i think
> fetchmail with some other program could do the trick. get to linux journal
> article archives describing such a scenario.
Thanks. I think I will use smarthost for all the mails accepted by my
ISP (usually those with envelope-sender as @mydomain.com) and for rest,
I will use my local SMTP directly.
fetchmail will fetchmails and qmail will be my MTA.
With regards,
-Payal
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