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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!aggarwal
- From: aggarwal@tigger.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal)
- Subject: Replacing UUCP with SMTP in this age...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.220304.5690@tigger.jvnc.net>
- Summary: Any 'neat' way to do with SMTP what UUCP can do
- Originator: aggarwal@r2d2.jvnc.net
- Keywords: SMTP, UUCP, IDA
- Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: r2d2.jvnc.net
- Organization: JvNCnet
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:03:04 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- I have run into this problem earlier, and have recieved some help but
- would now like to ask a larger audience.
-
- More and more people are moving to dialup IP protocols like SLIP, CSLIP
- and PPP. IN all of these 'dialup' cases, mail has to be typically stored
- on another system and transferred when the dialup system connects.
-
- Typically, UUCP provides a very good store and transfer mechanism.
- What's unique about the protocol is that the messages are stored on the
- mailserver, and transferred when the *dialup* host is ready to download
- them.
-
- What I need (and I think is needed by a lot in this community), is a
- similar functionality using IP instead of UUCP. IDA sendmail has a
- batched SMTP feature, but what is needed is for the mail to wait on the
- server and a way for the dialup host to force the server to start
- delivering the mail via SMTP when it dials up.
-
- IN other words, is there a way for an Internet host to store mail for
- a remote (dialup) host and then initiate the SMTP connection when the
- remote host wants (typically when the remote host connects via
- PPP/SLIP).
-
- Thanks, and any advise and discussion is appreciated.
-
-
- -vikas (609) 258-2403
- vikas@jvnc.net ...rutgers!jvncnet!vikas
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