Re: your mail

["Antonio Godinho" <antonio at nambu.uem.mz>]

Hi,

You can also run the ETRN implementation which is found on UNIX 
or even other windows mailers nowadays including Exchange. It 
just uses a regular PPP connection to poll the mail directly from 
the mail queue of the server you are connecting to.

Cheers,



> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:42:25AM +0400, Zeimm Auladin wrote:
> > I'm Zeimm, from Mauritius. I hope u remember me :)
> 
> Certainly do :-)
> 
> > I have installed an exim mail server and am using qmail pop3 on it.
> > I tested it and it works fine. I now have to make a proposal for a
> > customer who wants us to store and relay his email for him. He will
> > connect periodically to download and send mail as he cannot afford
> > to have a permanent internet connection. He has a mail server on the
> > What is the best architecture we could use for  that system? We
> > talked about UUCP during the workshop but Brian mentioned that it
> > was outdated.
> 
> Well, it's outdated for those places which have full Internet
> connectivity. But as a way for storing E-mail for a whole domain and
> pulling it down periodically, it does the job very well - much better
> than POP3 in fact, since POP3 does not have a standard way of
> preserving the envelope information.
> 
> As long as your customer's server has UUCP (which includes almost any
> version of Unix) then I'd say it's a good way to go. The 'native'
> method is to dial up directly to a UUCP mail server, but you can also
> do UUCP over TCP/IP, e.g. over a PPP dialup. In the latter case you
> may have to write some scripts to do the PPP dial, run uucico, then
> hang up PPP - or configure PPP dial-on-demand. There is at least one
> person on this list I know who runs a network like this.
> 
> If the customer's mail server is not Unix then you might have some
> difficulty finding UUCP software for it. There are a number of
> DOS/Windows implementations (e.g. UUPC is free) but integrating it
> with (say) an Exchange server is the hard part.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian.
> 
> -----
> This is the afnog mailing list, managed by Majordomo 1.94.4
> 
> To send a message to this list, e-mail afnog at afnog.org
> To send a request to majordomo, e-mail majordomo at afnog.org and put
> your request in the body of the message (i.e use "help" for help)
> 
> This list is maintained by owner-afnog at afnog.org
> 



Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP, MCP+Internet, MCSE
Address:Av. Julius Nyerere 947 3rd floor esq 
Maputo - Mozambique
Phone  : 258-1-490860
e-mail : ANTONIO at nambu.uem.mz

                     

-----
This is the afnog mailing list, managed by Majordomo 1.94.4

To send a message to this list, e-mail afnog at afnog.org
To send a request to majordomo, e-mail majordomo at afnog.org and put
your request in the body of the message (i.e use "help" for help)

This list is maintained by owner-afnog at afnog.org