Hi, I have a problem that is probably just due to being a newbie. I have set up a RH5.0 linux box, with diald & squid, and it is doing a great job of running my internet link. I have 6 Win95 PC's running off it, and the delivery of WWW services has been great, but mail, not so. The problem is that using MS Outlook, it times out before the linux box can connect etc., although if you say get it again, it works fine the second time. MS Internet Mail has a configurable timeout, so worked fine, (the more sophisticated) Outlook, apparently not so, hence the rude messages. Also, due to the linux box having a quiet modem, and a couple of users setting their check email to every 15 minutes, we had a HUGE bill at the end of the first month (dial every 15 minutes, hangup after 5 minutes inactivity - you work it out - not to mention the phone bill, 25 cents per call in Aus!). So, we have decided to go for a permanent email connection, fixed price, but only passing 25, 110, & 53 packets, so we can't use it for web browsing. Therefore our problem - one diald accepting anything except 25, 53, 110, and bringing the line up when it gets one - quite normal, and the second diald ignoring everything _except_ 25, 53, 110, and bringing it's line up on receipt of those. Of course, the second diald should never drop its connection, but rather than have the connection up on boot, I want to bring up the connection if needed, and then bring it up again when needed if the line should drop out, which it may as we are running on a normal POTS line. (25 cents = forever in Aus :-)) It looks simple, it even sounds simple, but my brain is addled after a week of drain, and any advice would be welcomed. If (when) I get this to work, I will send it to Eric for inclusion in the FAQ and possibly the diald-examples. This mode of operation seems like a very good idea - at the moment! Cheerio! Colin Wilson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
