Hi Matt,
If you set up your MX records so that your ISP queues your mail, you can
have sendmail receive it in a near normal fasion whenever you connect. To do
this, run sendmail in daemon mode (sendmail -bd)
sendmail -q90m will cause sendmail to process mail in the queue every 90
minutes... personally though I'd probably set up a script to manually
launch sendmail to process the queue when the link is detected as up... (eg,
sendmail -q will cause sendmail to process the queue only once)
I haven't used this setup, it might be broken... good luck ;)
Cheers,
Marty
On Friday, January 12, 2001 11:22 AM, Matt Hyne [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
>
> Folks, I've been asked by a family member if I can help them with their
email system.
>
> They are running a Linux server + database which is connected to the net
via a dial-on-demand modem.
> What we want to do, is have all the mail for the domain (ie all mail to
mydomain.com.au) downloaded by the linux box and then redistributed to the
users' mailboxes.
>
> Now I have looked at this in the past and I found that there are problems
with using a central mailbox and a single POP client such as fetchmail to do
the job. In particular, if the destination email address is contained in a
bcc: field (ie from a list or alias), there is no way of the local system
knowing who the email is destined for. This also applies to email sent from
a forwarder.
>
> Does anyone know of any other methods that would be appropriate. The mail
volume is quite low - < 30 emails a day.
>
> I have also thought that UUCP over IP (and then pipe this to sendmail)
might me appropriate - are there any ISPs that can handle this (cheaply) ?
>
> Outbound mail works fine via sendmail - anyone know how to make sendmail
queue, rather than bring the link up for each message ?
>
> Matt
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