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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>We have several systems that send email to customers and our local suport
>staff concerning the status of jobs that are being run. The problem is that
>the system they are sending the email to is lately often down and the
>messages get lost. So here is what I would like to do.
>
>The processing systems would send their email to qmail on linux/390 by
>telnetting to port 25. Qmail would then send those messages to the company
>email server, it just happens to be Lotus, for normal distribution. If
>Lotus or that whole system is down then qmail will hold the messages and
>retry sending them every so often.
Forgive me if I'm missing something, but that's precisely how SMTP
already works. qmail will queue and periodically retry any
unavailable MX for a configured (7 days by default) time period.
Or did I misunderstand what you're trying to do?
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David Talkington
http://www.spotnet.org
PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc
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