Re: exim for intermittent ppp connection? Also fetchmail bombs out.
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 23:01:58 +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> I'm wondering if exim can solve my problem with mail.
>
> I am having some trouble with fetchmail. I posted to this list previously,
> But am uncertain that my message got through. I installed sendmail, and am
> uncertain I have it right. Smail worked will for quite a long time. After
> a recent upgrade I saw some traffic on this list about needing to
> reconfigure smail: that was a nightmare, having taken months when I finally
> did get it going. Now do it again? I'm not sure I ever understood---wrong,
> I'm sure I never did.
Leaping from the pot to the frying pan is often not a wise approach.
OTOH, it sometimes takes drastic measures to get up and running
according to schedule. Right now, I don't see how replacing your MTA
is going to fix fetchmail.
Of course, you should be using smail from bo, unless you have a
permanent internet connection..at least that's what I was told and it
works for me.
> Sendmail is apparently working, but I'm not in command here either. Someone
> on the list warned that smail has been going strange places, which prompted
> my change: I thought it might solve my problem with fetchmail. Wrong.
> Fetchmail's problem --- crashing during the middle of the first message
> retrieval, every time, with an SMTP error because of failure to
> connect---still continues.
I don't know how smail could fix fetchmail. Try fixing fetchmail.
Since I have the latest and greatest fetchmail in hamm, and it works
great (actually, I've never had a problem with fetchmail), I don't know
what to tell you, other than to look at the bug reports.
> I looked at exim. Can exim do queues? That is, can mail be queued and send
> out (like runq) at the time of ppp connection? That's critical. Exim seems
> to be saying it's best at managing systems that are connected full time.
exim is reportedly a dropin replacement for smail/sendmail, so yes (I
haven't tried it, but everything I've read says this is true). I
believe this is mentioned in the package description, but if not, the
doc package for exim.
> Leaving all those aside for a moment? Is it true about smail?
I've read here that smail will be fixed by the hamm release, although
again I don't have any direct knowledge.
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