Re: Serial Mail and pppd

Jörgen Persson <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Sep 2002 09:44:07 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.serialmail
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On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:35:49AM +0200, Brett CavÃ© wrote:
> I am also running pppd with the "demand" option. This is to connect
> for other purposes. I want qmail to accept messages from a local
> network, but not to send them, and then schedule a connection at
> regular intervals. Only once the connection comes up, do I want to
> messages in the queue to be sent.
>
> At the moment, what is happening is that as soon as a message enters
> the queue, it triggers the dial-on-demand in pppd and gets sent
> straight away. (not sure if this is trigger by actually trying to send
> the messages, or by doing the mx lookup...).
>
> Is there any way I can configure serialmail/qmail to not even try and
> send messages. I have read how-to's on configuring serialmail, but
> they do not cover using the dial-on-demand option with pppd.

Try reading $SRC/TOISP

JÃ¶rgen