On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > The Linux machine will queue all the outgoing mail. This Linux machine > will then dial another school or hub (via. PPP) during the off-peak > hours and send out the emails from the queue.
> Questions > ^^^^^^^^^ > 1. Has something like this been implemented elsewhere? It would be nice > if I had more actual technical details on how this has been implemented. Yes, you have just reinvented FIDONET. Do a web search on that and you'll turn up some information. It reigned in the days of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's). During off-peak hours, the BBS's would call each other and exchange data and email. Email (though slow by today's standards) was possible from one end of the US to the other. I don't know how much technical help this'd be, but it might at least be a useful reference for the article you're writing. Take a look at http://www.fidonet.org/ http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html > 3. Are there out of the box solutions available? Do any of the MTAs > support this kind of stuff? I don't want to write custom scripts. I > prefer a solution that needs minimal maintenance. > > 4. I want to stay with TCP/IP. uucp is not a solution for me. Sorry, I don't know enough about this to help out. Perhaps you could ask on the Linux-net mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED] && linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu). Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "COBOL is here for the long run... [O]n the Starship Enterprise make no mistake, the program that calculates their pay will be written in COBOL..." - Jerome Jahnke