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On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Tom Eastman wrote: |
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> Hey guys, |
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> I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always |
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> a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. |
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> I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail |
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> whenever I feel like it. This laptop is only occasionally |
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> connected to the internet, and has very low resources (so memory |
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> resident daemons are less favourable). |
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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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> When I'm connected to a network, I can then manually dump the queue |
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> onto the smtp server *of my choice*, since the server would very |
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> depending on where I'm plugged into. |
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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 |
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of being called. One of which is a "send your queue and die" mode. |
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pick an mta and read the docs. |
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> Any ideas? |
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> Thanks! |
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> Tom |
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