Re UUCP friendly:
You are right.
I am a small ISP primarily hosting our clients web sites and mail..
We use Pegasus as the client, Novell or Win 95/98/NT as server ( with
Mercury or Mercury 32 ), and Linux with diald and some other toys for
Gateway and mail transport. We use exim and uucp and when we get a site
working (The first couple were hell! I'm still learning), it just works.
Non-stop with little or no admin.
When I feel more comfortable and make some time I will write it all up and
post it. Just keep reminding me of this promise.
JAH
Date sent: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 20:53:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Edward Doolittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tim E. Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copies to: diald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Email agent
> On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Tim E. Patterson wrote:
>
> > Does anybody have or know where I can get a script/program/agent that
> > would periodically check & retrieve their email and then forward it to
> > their local email address?
>
> I do it like this:
>
> * Have a friendly machine on the Internet set up an MX record for you in
> its domain. For example, if your ISP is isp.com, get them to set up an MX
> record for yourmachine.isp.com which points to uucp.isp.com.
>
> * Set up sendmail on uucp.isp.com to pass mail on to yourmachine by uucp.
>
> * Set up uucp on uucp.isp.com to hold mail until called.
>
> * Set up yourmachine to call out hourly using uucp over tcp/ip and pass
> the mail on to rmail which should pass it on to sendmail.
>
> * Now have everyone .forward their mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . (Of
> course they can include other addresses in their .forward file, including
> that of their mailbox on the machine from which they are forwarding.)
>
> It sounds complicated, but really it's pretty simple. The hard part is
> getting uucp working on the remote machine. If they've never heard of
> uucp before you may be out of luck. There must still be a few
> uucp-friendly ISPs out there somewhere, though.
>
> Ed
>
>
>
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