Re: MTA

[Joe Bouchard <jpb@cybertours.com>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:42:27PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to
> resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail
> and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use
> for outgoing mail. I've had sendmail die on me when I'm not connected to a
> network (not in Debian, though, haven't tried sendmail in Debian), so I
> wonder what the best setup is for outgoing mail when it is only to send mail
> when I connect to the ISP (and directly when I do that, preferrably without
> manual intervention).

I'll cast another vote for exim.  When you send mail it goes into an exim
queue and when you connect to the internet (pon) it starts sending
the mail automatically.

I have a cron job which connects early every morning, does fetchmail and
slrnpull, waits a few mintues for exim can do it's thing, and
disconnects.  Later in the day I do the same thing manually.

The only "gotcha" with is arrangement is if you want to send an email
with a large attachment you need to stay connected long enough to let
the thing go.  Since I rarely do this I just keep an eye on xnetload
until is says zero.

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Thank you,
Joe Bouchard

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