Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ2] Offtopic: Another way of gettingemails

[Tanel Tarendi <ttanel@xxxxxxxxx>]

hello,

Jeff Lasman wrote:

> It's called ETRN.  See the appropriate RFC for information.  You keep his
> mail in his mail queue.  When he dials in, he gives you a signal, and you
> send him his mail.
> 

Sendmail starting from 8.8 is supporting ETRN.

> ones).  What I don't know is how to set up Exchange to send an ETRN.  (This
> does require that the customer has static IP#, in other words that he gets
> the same IP# whenever he logs in.  My experience has been that a lot of
> European ISPs offer this, either as default or for a small extra fee.
> 

Exchange starting from 5.5 (or was it even 5.0?) supports ETRN for
dequeueing. I have also a small commandline utility for windows for
issuing ETRN (for example from batch files). I can share it if somebody
needs.

> >Perhaps someone of you can help. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I hope so, because I want to implement it, too, and I don't want to spend
> weeks looking for it <wry grin>.

Look http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/more.html: How to queue mail for
a domain that is seldom online?

I hope it answers most of your questions.

tanel