Re: [Exim] Exim and ETRN....

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Steven J. Hill wrote:

> Well, I have read all I can think to read and the O'Reilly
> book does cover ETRN all that much, so here we go.
>
> My ISP hosts a backup email server for my four domains. If
> my main mail server goes down, everything gets dropped into
> a 'catchall@<DOMAIN>' mailbox on the backup mail server with
> no regards as to who the actual recipient is. The backup mail
> server runs MailSite Express. Ideally, the next time EXIM runs
> I would like it to contact the backup mail server and pull
> the messages from each of the 'catchall' mailboxes. Something
> tells me I will need a combination of fetchmail in conjunction
> with exim. Does anyone have some insight to share on this?
> Thank you so much in advance.

To use ETRN, your ISP will have had to enable it (the difficult bit). As
to getting your machine to send an ETRN message to the machine, it can be
as simple as "fetchmail -f etrn.conf", where etrn.conf looks like:

poll sturdy.local with options
protocol ETRN
timeout 60


Remember that ETRN is not a way to pull data from a server. Rather it is
a way to request that the server send the data immediately (rather than
waiting for the retry time).

John

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