Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:47:02 -0500 From: "Frank J. Zidar" <zidarf@zidar.com> To: "Oren Sarig" <sarig@bezeqint.net.il>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: SMTP and POP3 Message-ID: <NCBBKJHGKKAODNDGGJIMAEDCCFAA.zidarf@zidar.com> In-Reply-To: <387CB938.BA57A9C6@bezeqint.net.il>
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I have this exact scenario setup at my office and it works great. I am using sendmail and fetchmail to get my POP3 mail from my ISP's server. My FreeBSD server is configured as a gateway and I am using userland ppp to connect to my ISP whenever anyone attempts to access the net. It appears in your message that you have most of this setup already (unless I am reading it incorrectly) so I'm not quite sure where your problem is. Maybe a little more detail would help. Frank -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Oren Sarig Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 12:26 PM To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SMTP and POP3 I do not have a static connection to the net, I connect when I need something on the net. Now, I would like to use the local mail delivery systems (sendmail, and /var/mail). In my ideal situation, I would send mail via sendmail, and read mail with mutt or whatever. Whenever I dialup, sendmail would send all the queued mail, and some daemon would fetch my mail from my ISP's POP3 server, and deliver it to the users. Now, I can't get sendmail and the fetcher daemon (If there is one) to try every 5 minues or so, since trying to load something from the net triggers and outgoing connection. Is there some way to achieve what I want? I've read the mail section in Greg Lehey's book, but it only provides a general outline of how the mail system works, and doesn't mention a configuration like this. Neither does the handbook. So, has anyone here have an idea how I could try something like this? Or has maybe someone set up something similar? TIA, Oren Sarig sarig@bezeqint.net.il PS The handbook mentions I could turn to a company to provide a secondary MX for me, but apparently this costs money, which I wouldn't want to spend. I could just stick with netscape for mail if I must. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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