At 9:51 +0100 9/4/2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
>ETRN support is not something I designed into Exim. People asked for it,
>so I provided a lash-up. I think the reason people asked for is was the
>that Microsoft clients they were running expected it to be available.
>
>My standard defence is that I did not write Exim for this kind of use.
>
>My standard recommendation for use with intermittently connected hosts
>is NOT to save their mail on Exim's queue, but to deliver it into files
>in BSMTP format, and use some other scheme for getting it delivered when
>the client connects.
Well, we're happy it's there, and it works fine in moderation (and with
cooperation). We have two hosts in etrn_hosts...one is a machine of mine,
for testing; the other is a low mail volume customer in a location remote
to us (who has a web site with us). And that customer uses a capable hired
guru to manage their Exchange server (not his fault they use that...he'd
rather manage most anything else). Static IP (the guru fired one ISP for
not being able to achieve that).
It's not something we intend to do in volume.
--john
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John Baxter jwblist@??? Port Ludlow, WA, USA
