Frank, On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, you wrote: > I'am running qmail 1.03 on an RH 6.0 (2.2.5) box and I host mail for > special domain. Our client's mail server (no Linux/Unix maschine) makes > a dial-up connection to the internet and then want's to to get his > emails delivered from our server. > > I've heard something about ETRN which is applied but I don't know what > exactly to do. > > Can anybody help me out? I don't know where, or if this is documented. Here's what I know from personal experience. ETRN is an SMTP command, issued by a client machine, to it's SMTP server, to tell that server to send along any SMTP Email queued up for it. The sendmail package has a contributed utility called etrn.pl which issues the appropriate command. There is also a script file called etrn.sh to do the same thing. These script files use to be how people had to pickup their SMTP mail. But, later versions of fetchmail (I'm using 4.6) have the ability to issue that command. So the script files are no longer needed. I suggest that your client just add to the end of the file .fetchmailrc , a line like the following: poll <SMTP server> with protocol ETRN For example, if the SMTP server's name is smtp.rimnet.de , the line would look like this: poll smtp.rimnet.de with protocol ETRN For multiple SMTP servers, multiple lines can be used. If you are serving POP mail, then your client should already be using sendmail, and already have .fetchmailrc in the correct place(s). If not, it must live in the home directory, of the account from which fetchmail will be executed. I execute it from /etc/ppp/ip-up.local , so I have the file in root's home directory. This poll command only has to be issued once per dialing connection -- the server will continue sending newly received Email, as long as the client remains connected to the net. / Ray ------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Ray Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Unconditional Forgiveness & Love -- Chapel Hill NC or Sutton Mills NH | The corner stones of coexistence. Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
