Re: serialmail for direct transfer to dialup smtp? from Levan.

Èíñòèòóò ÄÏÎ <[email protected]> writes:

> We have two mail servers: one of them is local dial-up mail server at
> remoute office rmat.ru and another one is connected directly to internet
> iape.ru (and other virtual mail domains).

So you need serialmail. Don't use serialsmtp directly - use
maildirsmtp instead, either triggered by ppp-up or by cron. It's a
good idea to limit maildirsmtp to one running copy with the help of
the setlock program from daemontools.

To get mail from iape.ru to rmat.ru you could use fetchmail in
multidrop mode. It's not as clean as getmail, but it delivers to the
smtp server on rmat.ru, so all the flexibility of your MTA is kept.

I used UUCP for a long time for a similar setup - I still favor it if
bandwith is an issue. With UUCP you get batching and compression
(using BSMTP). When doing it through TCP you can choose a UUCP
protocol without error correction (I think it was the G-protocol in
Taylor-UUCP). In the case of UUCP ther is no need for serialmail or
fetchmail.

> At last how d'you know what we are using for sending mail?

I assume qmail because you use serialmail. Of course it can be any
other MTA that does maildir delivery. It's only a guess.

Regards, Frank