Re: [Exim] exim and pppd (via mobil-telephone)

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Michelle Konzack wrote:

> Hello to all,
>
> Curently I have no internet access at home and must download every
> day around 3-4 MByte E-Mails in a Cyber-Center, put it onto Floppys
> and pass it at home local to procmail (on my nfs-server).
>
> At home I read the E-Mails, answer and next day I go to the Cyber-
> Center to send the E-Mails... :-/
>
> I like to deliver the E-mails in the night as fast as possibel and
> economic.
>
> Now I install on an old machine (486dx2/66) a Mailserver with exim.
> so I send all mails from my Workstationd (Linux, Dos, BSD, Win) to
> it.
>
> But exim must spool the E-Mails and send it only all 2-3 hours OR
> (!!!) if the spooler has more then 60 kByte in it...
>
> This is, because I must pay 0.10 Euro (or US$) per minute...
> ...and my current access has only 9600 BpS (next time I get HSCSD
> with 38400 BpS).
>
> Can anyone help me precisly ?
>
> I do not know, how to configure exim correctly to hold the messages
> (it send the E-Mails immediatly to the Mobil-Telephone).
>
> So exim is only a smtp-relay.

You can use queue_only_file and a external script, that checks
1.) for the current time
2.) for the queue-size

But you must be careful that nothing triggers a dns-lookup in your
exim-config.

ciao