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On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Stroller wrote: |
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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 |
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>>> 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets |
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>>> mail to send it 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 |
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>> ways of being called. One of which is a "send your queue and die" |
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>> mode. pick 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 |
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> to your current ISP. |
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hadn't thought of that, since my home mail server allows |
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authenticated smtp. darn. |
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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 |
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> mail because it comes from dial-129.crummy.isp.net (AOL like to do |
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> this) |
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> - and he has his home ISP's SMTP server listed then it will likely |
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> fail 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 |
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> the Linux email programs. I would have thought that the ideal |
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> solution for the original poster would be to find an SMTP server |
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> that he can access from anywhere, probably using authenticated |
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> SMTP. If he wants a queue for when his laptop is offline then he |
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> uses Postfix locally & sets the authenticating SMTP server as |
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> "relayhost" - all messages will be delivered that way when he runs |
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> `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 |
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> "relayhost" line of /etc/postfix/main.cf but I'm inclined to think |
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> that the other solutions are "better" because they're more |
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> "standardised". |
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> Stroller. |
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