[plug] Detecting Network Settings for mail server

[Bill Kenworthy]

Fetchmail delivers the retrieved mail to postfix on port 25 which then
sends it on to the designated user account(s)
postfix will send outgoing mail when a connection exists (i.e., it can
connect) - not as intelligent as fetchmail, but it works.

The scenario you put forward is quite common and the tools are already
there to take care of it.  An added advantage is that when you want to
reconfigure the system (say move the mail to a different server such as
when you change that troublesome legacy windows gateway to a modern
linux server), it is much simpler to do.

BillK


On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 16:14, Tim White wrote:
> Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> >Fetchmail will do the access monitoring for you - no extra scripts
> >needed.  It worked well with a dialup modem that went online a couple of
> >times a day - does a check every 5 mins when online.
> >
> >Never used exim.  I use postfix to deliver the mail from fetchmail,
> >
> What about sending? Does postfix queue it then when fetchmail delivers 
> mail to it it sends?
> Tim