A million thanx to everyone for all the help on this.
Since we get email from a number of servers, I finally decided to go with
fetchmail, running as daemon and distributing all the mail to local accts.
Works like a charm!
I did, however, have to add 2 more identical 'nameserver' entries in
/etc/resolv.conf so
my connections wouldn't time out before diald connected (diald faq 2.9).
Now I need to figure out how clients can respond to mail (reply to author)
from
outside directly, without having to wait for a connection, by delegating
the job to
Sendmail - masquerade_as? Is that how you all do it ? Time to break out the
old O'Reilly book.
Thanx again.
Tim Patterson.
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> From: Jean-Michel Lacroix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tim E. Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Email agent
> Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 9:12 PM
>
> >Hi.
> >Sorry if this is a little off topic. I thought some diald users might
have
> >the same item on their wish list, though.
> >We have an intranet where most users have local email accts (Sendmail on
> >Linux), and a lot of users also have Internet email accts, and the only
> >reason they connect to the Internet is to get their email.
> >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?
> >If not, I suppose that'll be my next project; I just hate to reinvent
the
> >wheel if I don't have to ;-}
> >TIA.
>
> I am using an application called fetchmail. I would have to look at home
> to know where to get it.
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