On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 11:32:26AM -0400, Ray Marshall wrote:
> I have installed Qmail on my machine at home, replacing sendmail.
>
> Whenever my machine dials into my ISP, it issues etrn commands, telling my
> ISP's SMTP mail servers to deliver all Email queued up for my machine.
> Unfortunately, etrn is a sendmail utility, so it no longer works. I need
> something that can, from a Qmail installed machine, tell a sendmail
> installed machine to give me what's queued.
>
> I did find "serialmail", and actually installed it. But the documentation
> for talking to an ISP, seems to assume that the ISP is also running Qmail.
> This is not the case here. They are still running sendmail, and I am now
> running Qmail.
>
> Can anyone point me in the proper direction?
-- snip
[root@zopie] ~# cat /usr/local/sbin/etrn
#!/bin/sh
nc etrn.vuurwerk.nl 25 << EOF 2>&1 > /dev/null
EHLO attic.vuurwerk.nl
ETRN attic.vuurwerk.nl
QUIT
EOF
-- snip
Replace attic.vuurwerk.nl with your domainname (use multiple ETRN lines for
multiple domains, keep the one EHLO). Replace etrn.vuurwerk.nl with the
hostname of the ISP mailserver.
Also, a simple fetchmail line will do the job just as well. I just forgot
what the line was :)
Greetz, Peter
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