On 10/22/07, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have run an email server for about 4 years on dialup - and dialin.Is there any howto which deals with this sort of setup
The key thing is balancing mails to be sent and frequency of dialing
up. I had two modems for dialin and one for dialup. And perl scripts
to check when there is enough pending mail to justify a dial. The
other problem is duplicate mails - you will be using fetchmail, and
if the dialup quits, you get duplicates dowloaded. You need perl/
mysql db to look after this. I had great fun doing this - and I
suggest you use perl and mysql for finetuning - nothing like using
antique tools to handle antique situations.
Fetchmail is great fun to use - I suggest also to make extensive use
of procmail recipies. The greatest tool to learn linux admin is
running a dialup mailserver.
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regards
kg