Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Eastman wrote: Hey guys, I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail whenever I feel like it. This laptop is only occasionally connected to the internet, and has very low resources (so memory resident daemons are less favourable). So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue. When I'm connected to a network, I can then manually dump the queue onto the smtp server *of my choice*, since the server would very depending on where I'm plugged into. Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net Does such a program exist? Really I'm just looking for something like ssmtp, but with a queue. Any ideas? Thanks! Tom Just found... look at mail-mta/esmtp http://esmtp.sourceforge.net/ It will do deliver on user based configuration,queueing for dial-up-connections and local delivery via MDA. Greets BeowulfOF -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDZzEncZpid1GuHxcRAk8yAJ4wrdbKOw39IIfswUveMbR9OB67ZgCfdiOt 40UqKFNCxvwdXv7AOLaIVJY= =/nML -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Tom Eastman wrote: Hey guys, I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail whenever I feel like it. This laptop is only occasionally connected to the internet, and has very low resources (so memory resident daemons are less favourable). So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue. When I'm connected to a network, I can then manually dump the queue onto the smtp server *of my choice*, since the server would very depending on where I'm plugged into. Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net Does such a program exist? Really I'm just looking for something like ssmtp, but with a queue. most mtas (postfix, sendmail, and exim for sure) have multiple ways of being called. One of which is a send your queue and die mode. pick an mta and read the docs. Any ideas? Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Stroller wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:27 pm, John Jolet wrote: ... So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net Does such a program exist? Really I'm just looking for something like ssmtp, but with a queue. most mtas (postfix, sendmail, and exim for sure) have multiple ways of being called. One of which is a send your queue and die mode. pick an mta and read the docs. Postfix would be _ideal_ except that relayhost is static. I don't believe there is any way to define relayhost to change according to your current ISP. hadn't thought of that, since my home mail server allows authenticated smtp. darn. So if he runs `postfix flush`: - and he has no relayhost defined then some ISPs will reject his mail because it comes from dial-129.crummy.isp.net (AOL like to do this) - and he has his home ISP's SMTP server listed then it will likely fail when sending mail from his office. Apple's email program handles this pretty well, accepting a list of SMTP servers that it'll try in turn, but I don't know about any of the Linux email programs. I would have thought that the ideal solution for the original poster would be to find an SMTP server that he can access from anywhere, probably using authenticated SMTP. If he wants a queue for when his laptop is offline then he uses Postfix locally sets the authenticating SMTP server as relayhost - all messages will be delivered that way when he runs `postfix flush`. I believe that Yahoo! GMail offer outgoing authenticated SMTP services, and if you have a Yahoo.co.uk address this is free. Alternatively he could set up Postfix on his home server relay through that. The final solution (that i can think of) would be to write a dump_all_mail_to script that takes $1 and edits it into the relayhost line of /etc/postfix/main.cf but I'm inclined to think that the other solutions are better because they're more standardised. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
Stroller wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:27 pm, John Jolet wrote: ... So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net Does such a program exist? Really I'm just looking for something like ssmtp, but with a queue. most mtas (postfix, sendmail, and exim for sure) have multiple ways of being called. One of which is a send your queue and die mode. pick an mta and read the docs. Postfix would be _ideal_ except that relayhost is static. I don't believe there is any way to define relayhost to change according to your current ISP. If you use dhclient as your dhcp client, you can write up a /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks to read the smtp-server option given by the DHCP server, and modify any necessary configuration files as necessary with sed/grep/etc... I do this currently to modify my samba configuration to dynamically take advantage of WINS servers. Of course, if the DHCP server doesn't provide the smtp-server option, well, you can always set it based on the domain-name option... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
