Re: kissing exim

[Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:08:01AM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >> Anthony Rowe <ay986@chebucto.ns.ca> writes:
> 
>  > I am confident that Exim can indeed be configured to act like sSMTP if
>  > the sysadmin is experienced and familiar with Exim
> 
>  My one complain about ssmtp (from the POV of a dial-up user) is that it
>  doesn't queue mail.  For a dial-up system it's nice to be able to write
>  mail, "send" it and have the MTA deliver it when a connection becomes
>  available, which is trivial to do with exim if you select the smart
>  host configuration and read the docs afterwards (but this is your
>  complain).

I see problem with default exim support script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim
If you dot dial up, message may expire.

Replacing /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim, with:

      #!/bin/sh
      #/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim
      for i in /var/spool/exim/msglog/* ; do
         exim -M $(echo $i|cut -b24-)
      done

was suggested on ML once.  I do not know this is better or not.
At least exim needs to be dial-up friendly. (I am on cable)
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I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.