>Is there a way of doing on-demand SMTP without an IP for the client
>machine? (Ie., the client is IP masqueraded, and uses a private
>network IP-ETRN requires an IP.)
Russ Nelson has some great hacks around serialmail. One of the best
uses a dummy POP mailbox, and every time there's a successful login on
that POP mailbox, fires up serialmail to send all of the spooled mail
to the IP that's POP-ing. It was about three lines of code.
If your client dials in using PPP to a Unix box, it's usually easy to
start serialmail from the PPP startup script, again to whatever IP
they're connected on, so the mail gets delivered each time they call
in.
--
John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl,
Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
