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Re: Mail Help (follow up)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Fri Oct 25 13:38:38 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:40:40 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <199610250425.VAA01429@qtpi.lakewood.ca.us> from "Bob Taylor" at Oct 24, 96 09:24:51 pm
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Bob Taylor wrote:
>
> I seem to have badly garbled my original message and my original
> followup
> seems to have been sent to /dev/null (sigh).
>
> 1. ALL incoming email for qtpi.lakewood.ca.us is dumped into
> my account
> at my ISP. Seperate popclients won't work unless I
> misunderstand how
> popclient works.
Why not? As long as each user has a ~/pop or whatever file, popclient
should look at that first. All you have to do is run popclient as a
bunch of differnt users.. easy enough with us, or separate crontabs.
Granted, for more than a coule users, this is a real ain in the butt...
> 2. What I really need is for the output of popclient to be
> piped thru
> sendmail. Can this be done and how? I don't want to try
> this since
> I don't know what may happen.
Not likely.
Exactly what are you trying to do? How many users are you trying to
pipe email for?
At a compnay I used to work for, we made a deal with a local
ISP... they setup their sendmail to queue all the mail sent to our
domain, then when the machine connected over PPP a sendmail -q, an rsh
to their main machine, and another sendmail -q; cleared out our queue,
their queue and gave our machine a chance to bounce any mail that
needed to be returned. (i.e., no such login)
Maybe you need something like that... instead of trying to do POP for
a bunch of people. (actually turned out to be cheaper than the
individual pop account route, since they didn't have to deal with eacn
and every one of our users)
Good luck.
--
-Otto
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