[plug] Ok, the next question...

[John Breen]

>> Actually, I was going to set up diald and allow demand dialling of
>> the ISP, and use a cron job to fetch my mail.  If I tell sendmail 
>to
>> forward all queued mail at the same time, then that _should_ work.
>> Right?
>>
>
>Yes, and No.  When sendmail receives a request, it usually tries to 
>verify
>the DNS name of the recipient, so it sends a DNS lookup, which kicks 
>diald,
>which brings your link up.  Kind of defeats the purpose of spooling 
>it.
>
>This is what heppened when I tried to set up a similar mechanism.  
>The
>sendmail gods on the list may know of a configuration option to 
>prevent
>this...?
>

AFAIR, it's not a sendmail option, it's a diald option.  Diald can be
forced to ignore DNS lookup requests, and only come online for
certain protocols...
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