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I have term115 and smail installed. When I have the
term connection up and do a tredir 25 25, mail works
fine.  I can send mail out over the term connection.
However, without the term connection it fails:

... failed: (ERR_14 8) transport termsmtp: connect: Connection refused  

It fails in the sense mail is returned to the sender
rather than being queued.

This is really annoying. I should be able to write up
all my mail and then call up and do a  runq to send all
the queued mail, which is also  how it is alluded in the
Term.HOWTO.

It seems that somewhere in the smail jungle something
has to be set but where and what?

ismail

   I have term115 and smail installed. When I have the
   term connection up and do a tredir 25 25, mail works
   fine.  I can send mail out over the term connection.
   However, without the term connection it fails:

   ... failed: (ERR_14 8) transport termsmtp: connect: Connection refused  

   It fails in the sense mail is returned to the sender
   rather than being queued.

   This is really annoying. I should be able to write up
   all my mail and then call up and do a  runq to send all
   the queued mail, which is also  how it is alluded in the
   Term.HOWTO.

   It seems that somewhere in the smail jungle something
   has to be set but where and what?

I think the variable you're interested in is ``defer_no_connect''. It
should be set by default, but if it's unset (i.e. -defer_no_connect in
your term transport), smail won't queue mail after failed connections.
This is a good question, and if this is the right answer, I'll add it
to the next rev of the HOWTO. Could you confirm for me whether this is
right or not?
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When I was testing this the first time I got it to queue up because there
was no smarthost set up. But ever since I just get a bounce.

This is important because I'd like to put this info in the mailerd+smail
package so that you can write mail anytime and have it queued until the
term link is up again.

BAJ
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So by setting the delivery mode and adding a runq command in the crontab
one should be able to send mail all the time and it'll be delivered when
the term link is up. Probably also a good idea to run the runq command when
the term link first comes up so that all the queued mail can be delivered.
My tredir 25 25 is started automatically in my kermit script. I plan to
add a runq after that. Also a good idea to runq before you shut the link
link down.

Another idea of mine is to have two smail configs: one active and one queued.
Link the active one while the term link is up so that mail is delivered
immediately. When the term link shuts down link the queued one so that mail is
queued. Then you won't need the cron runq: just run it once on startup because
all mail while term is active will be delievered immediately.

Will test and report.

Later,

BAJ
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Dan S.