It's a permanent connection... Just happens to be a dial-up...
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Doug Lumpkin
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Frederik Lindberg wrote:
> Doug Lumpkin writes:
>
> > I have installed a dial-up box for a customer that is running qmail for
> > both inter-office and internet mail. Once a week one of the users in their
> > office sends a mailing list to upwards of 500 people. This causes big
> > problems over their 28.8 connection...
> >
> > Is there an intelligent way for qmail to determine if a message contains
> > more than 30 recipients and then forward it off to our SMTP server (on a
> > T1) for delivery?
>
> qmail isn't made for dialups. Use the serialmail package for remote mail
> instead. Local delivery with qmail and all remote mail goes to a Maildir
> from where it is sent to the smarthost via serialmail.
>
> -Sincerely, Fred
> Frederik Lindberg, Inf. Dis, WashU, St. Louis, MO