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On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:27 pm, John Jolet wrote: |
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>> ... |
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>> So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so |
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>> that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it |
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>> stores it in a queue.... |
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>> Some kind of command like: |
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>> $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net |
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>> Does such a program exist? Really I'm just looking for something |
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>> like ssmtp, but with a queue. |
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> most mtas (postfix, sendmail, and exim for sure) have multiple ways of |
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> being called. One of which is a "send your queue and die" mode. pick |
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> an mta and read the docs. |
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Postfix would be _ideal_ except that "relayhost" is static. I don't |
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believe there is any way to define "relayhost" to change according to |
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your current ISP. |
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So if he runs `postfix flush`: |
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- and he has no "relayhost" defined then some ISPs will reject his mail |
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because it comes from dial-129.crummy.isp.net (AOL like to do this) |
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- and he has his home ISP's SMTP server listed then it will likely fail |
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when sending mail from his office. |
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Apple's email program handles this pretty well, accepting a list of |
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SMTP servers that it'll try in turn, but I don't know about any of the |
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Linux email programs. I would have thought that the ideal solution for |
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the original poster would be to find an SMTP server that he can access |
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from anywhere, probably using authenticated SMTP. If he wants a queue |
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for when his laptop is offline then he uses Postfix locally & sets the |
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authenticating SMTP server as "relayhost" - all messages will be |
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delivered that way when he runs `postfix flush`. |
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I believe that Yahoo! & GMail offer outgoing authenticated SMTP |
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services, and if you have a Yahoo.co.uk address this is free. |
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Alternatively he could set up Postfix on his home server & relay |
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through that. |
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The final solution (that i can think of) would be to write a |
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dump_all_mail_to script that takes $1 and edits it into the "relayhost" |
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line of /etc/postfix/main.cf but I'm inclined to think that the other |
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solutions are "better" because they're more "standardised". |
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Stroller. |
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