On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 09:00:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 02:51:14AM +0000, Sam wrote:
> > Configure Qmail normally, except that you'll initialize control/smtproutes
> > to have all non-local E-mail smarthosted through your ISP's mail server.
> >
> > Then, motify the ip-up script to automatically send a SIGHUP to qmail-send
> > when the connection to the Internet is established, causing all pent up
> > E-mail to be flushed to the smarthost.
>
> It's SIGALRM isn't it?
> And it won't work, if you are within the 2 minute "timeout" of tcpto ?
>
> IMHO it's better to configure qmail to deliver all outgoing email to
> a Maildir and use the serialmail package (found on djb's website) to
> send it to the smarthost on dial-out.
>
serialmail is one answer but the holdremote patch is much easier to
use in the 'normal' dial-up ISP situation. There's far less extra
configuration needed.
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