Re: Q: Using qmail for store and forward
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:39:36AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. man qmail-remote, look for smtproutes. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: Q: Using qmail for store and forward
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [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? - -d - -- David Talkington http://www.spotnet.org PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQEVAwUBO2l21b1ZYOtSwT+tAQHGjAf+K0BFTAZP/KN+xurs/oTgIGcL8Itoc3xD aD20BVAeU4r8dJvjh6GwgPT4IlyhTyNC1RX0smictJKEPfyhUE5lk4wnYgCo/jID u/hEGzq4hl+QC9yj4n9k9/JHRSS3LzOxyPWwvFfrVw/tNW2hg/H2ZuJSgA1kIhTZ hvHdaYXSn0KciArmLNm+4W84KaualFGuqRKqeG654llCuoptJBnHITbHSmBytTAa gFjUY71KKZUpvtBNFiv5H2ogJncpC0fZvoRxXUVXY5kSuf4KvPOrt17wjHx0r/eJ qB+kT8wMJ4Tig4w7Ak4RELNopBuB55+/LtO1cSpQ/0eLSMu2CzvC9g== =pPCb -END PGP SIGNATURE-