Re: your mail

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:42:25AM +0400, Zeimm Auladin wrote:
> I'm Zeimm, from Mauritius. I hope u remember me :)

Certainly do :-)

> I have installed an exim mail server and am using qmail pop3 on it. I 
> tested it and it works fine. I now have to make a proposal for a customer 
> who wants us to store and relay his email for him. He will connect 
> periodically to download and send mail as he cannot afford to have a 
> permanent internet connection. He has a mail server on the
> What is the best architecture we could use for  that system? We talked 
> about UUCP during the workshop but Brian mentioned that it was outdated.

Well, it's outdated for those places which have full Internet connectivity.
But as a way for storing E-mail for a whole domain and pulling it down
periodically, it does the job very well - much better than POP3 in fact,
since POP3 does not have a standard way of preserving the envelope
information.

As long as your customer's server has UUCP (which includes almost any
version of Unix) then I'd say it's a good way to go. The 'native' method is
to dial up directly to a UUCP mail server, but you can also do UUCP over
TCP/IP, e.g. over a PPP dialup. In the latter case you may have to write
some scripts to do the PPP dial, run uucico, then hang up PPP - or configure
PPP dial-on-demand. There is at least one person on this list I know who
runs a network like this.

If the customer's mail server is not Unix then you might have some
difficulty finding UUCP software for it. There are a number of DOS/Windows
implementations (e.g. UUPC is free) but integrating it with (say) an
Exchange server is the hard part.

Cheers,

Brian.

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