RE: [Sheflug] Re: Mail server

["David Morris" <nospam [at] allvac.co.uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> [mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk]On Behalf Of José
> Luis Gómez
> Dans
> Sent: 24 August 2001 09:45
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Re: Mail server
>
>
> [While on the subject...]
>
> 	Is there a simple MTA for dialup? I mean, I guess that there is
> a niche :-) for this kind of thing. Just a simple MTA for your average
> Joe Doe user, which can be configured easily to retrieve mail and to
> send it without the hassles of sendmail/postfix/exim (even though exim
> as configured by debian is a painless install). Having my
> home box send
> about 4 mails per month using sendmail/postfix is simply
> overkill, isn't

fetchmail could handle the incoming stuff. It will, IIRC, deliver direct to
Maildir format.

What I can't find is something that would do a simple "store and forward"
for the outgoing smtp traffic. "Obtuse systems" have a store and forward
proxy, but it uses sendmail to do the final forwarding which defeats the
object somewhat!

I suppose what you'd need is a two-part routine. The first stores the mail
locally. The second part can be initiated once you're on-line and dump all
the messages in the store to the ISP's smarthost. That gets around a lot of
complicated DNS stuff, I'd imagine. It could also be easier if you didn't
worry about trying to support local vs remote deliveries. I can imagine
(cheating) ways around it though!

It sounds easy :-'

I might chalk it down as a "winter nights research project" for after my
son's gone to bed!

--
David Morris
work: david [at] allvac.co.uk
home: david [at] brassedoff.net
http://www.davidm.demon.co.uk

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