FYI: MSX uses X.400 as the preferred connection between MSX hosts; but
this can be complicated to set up. SMTP works fine, and we also use a Unix
Mail Hub and MSX client-hosts.
I wonder if you might want to think about initiating the dial-up
connection from the main server to the satellite hosts, though? That way,
you could use 'serialmail' and virtual-hosting to queue each server's mail
in their own Maildirs, and a cron job to bring up the ISDN connections
one-by-one and blat the mail through. It would mean you wouldn't have to
work out how to get MSX to use ETRN (though I hear it's quite easy) as well.
By the way, qmail proper *doesn't* support ETRN, an add-on package called
'serialmail' can, instead. Install that and read through the man pages;
it's not hard to set it up.
-----Original Message-----
From: Olivier M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 11:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: M$ Exchange -> qmail
Thanks for your answer Thomas,
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 11:47:27PM +0200, Thomas Neumann wrote:
> I'm not an expert on M$ Exchange by any means, but I know
> for sure that Exchange can run an SMTP server for itself,
> and this is where you can hook up to. Just have all customer
> mail delivered into Maildirs on your new qmail machine
> (one Maildir per customer), then you can use a small program
> to fetch the mail using POP3 from the qmail machine to the
> Windows machines running Exchange, where you re-inject them
> into the local SMTP server offered by Exchange. I do the
One maildir per user or per domain ? If it is per domain,
then it should be possible to use serialmail to send the mails
from the linux server to the NT client: it's good documented.
> I think Exchange can also use ETRN to tell another SMTP
> server that it wants it to send queued mail, but ETRN
> is even worse, being incredibly insecure and qmail doesn't
> support it w/o a patch anyway, so stay away from it.
okay... didn't found anything about ETRN on the qmail
homepage. then I'll make some tests using only smtp.
Thanks for your hints!
Olivier
