Ok... Entire situation. One linux box with internet access (28.8 modem), on a
network. They do not want employees to have internet access, so none of the
machines can reach anything other than what is on the local network. Qmail is
set-up as the SMTP server and processes both interoffice and internet mail. They
have small internet mail load and a large interoffice mail load, except when once
a week a large mailing list is distributed. The interoffice mail is distributed
locally and never has to traverse the internet. Importantly, This is what they
want!
What I would like to do is have qmail notice that the message it is processing is
to more than 30 bcc addresses and then decide to pass that to a different SMTP
server to be processed at the ISP. This way their dial-up line is not cruching
messages for hours non-stop.
I would appreciate any suggestions you might have...
--
Doug Lumpkin
PacInfo Internet
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote:
> I dont see why this is necessary. Have you ever heard of virtual hosts?
> Mail exchangers? POP boxes? Virtual Domains? etc, etc?
>
> It might help us to better help you, if you explain the entire situation?
>
> On Fri, 28 May 1999, Doug Lumpkin wrote:
>
> >I realize there might be better ways to do this, but none of their machines
> >are connected to the internet, only the gateway machine is. So it has to be
> >running SMTP to accept their messages and then direct them out onto the
> >net...
> >--
> >Doug Lumpkin
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> >John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 28 May 1999, Frederik Lindberg wrote:
> >>
> >> >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.
> >>
> >> SMTP itself really isnt optimized for dialup, it's not just qmail.
> >>
> >> There are tons of ways to run a more efficient mailer from a dialup box
> >> without using SMTP or even serialmail.
> >>
> >> qmtp is an option
> >>
> >> Bruce Guenter has a nullmailer package that might be of some use.
> >>
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> >> [---------------------------------------------[system info]-----------]
> >> 5:40pm up 113 days, 43 min, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.17, 0.18
> >
> >--
> >Doug Lumpkin
> >PacInfo Internet
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
>
> _ __ _____ __ _________
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> __ __ \ __ \ __/_ __ `__ \/ __ /_ ___/ MDC Computers/netMDC!
> _ / / / `__/ /_ / / / / / / /_/ / / /__ (505)437-7600/fax-437-3052
> /_/ /_/\___/\__/ /_/ /_/ /_/\__,_/ \___/ http://www.netmdc.com
> [---------------------------------------------[system info]-----------]
> 6:00pm up 113 days, 1:03, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.12
