Daniel Martin wrote: > I'm drawing up a list of how I'd like a mail program to behave in my > environment; so far, these are the requirements: > Local mail is just delivered locally; no fuss or hassle about > forwarding local mail on to one's ISP unless that's very explicitly > requested. > Headers (including the RFC822 envelope) are rewritten transparently > and accurately. This means that, for example, Sender: lines from my > machine would become something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (i.e. the Sender: line would depend on the dns name of the ip address > the message leaves the machine by), and that the From: line would > match the envelope address, if the From: line was requested to be > rewritten.
My zyxel router automatically connects to the net whenever it needs to send a packet off the local lan. The router then gets a dynamic address and uses a form of network address translation that zyxel calls SUA to hide the internal network. Currently the only way to get the ip address is through a telnet or serial connection to the router. I think expect would let me navigate through the menus to get the ip address automatically, but the address would only be valid when the isdn line is up. If I send mail while the line is down, the mail itself brings the line up. This is too late to modify the message. I really like your idea. I've had quite a few problems getting local and remote mail to work with smail and a dialup connection. > Access to outgoing mail can be restricted for certain users; however, > postmaster can opt to receive each bounced message and ok certain > messages for delivery to the rest of the world. > Another machine/other machines can be treated as "local", and not > subject to the rewritting rules. > Mail relaying... I'm not certain what I'd want the behavior to be in > this case - probably just disallow relaying entirely, except to/from > "local" machines. > > Can anyone else think of other features the ideal MTA for dialup > machines should have? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Next Level Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
