Re: [Exim] conditional delivery to temporary server

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Andy Loukes
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] conditional delivery to temporary server
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Andy Loukes wrote:

> I am trying to use exim to deliver to users who have domains and mail servers
> connecting with dial-up.
>
> If they are online I would like to deliver directly to their server.
>
> If they are offline I would like to store the mail in a batch smtp file so
> they can recieve after issuing an ETRN command.


How can you tell they are online?

If some script gets obeyed when they connect/disconnect, you can get the
script to create/delete some file, and in the Exim configuration, you
can use require_files to detect the presence or absence of this file.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.