by Andrew Taylo » Sat, 07 Aug 1999 04:00:00
Just wondering, my e-mail address from my isp is
to hot-shot.demon.co.uk, when my machine is online you can telnet to it by
telneting to hot-shot.demon.co.uk. When someone sends an e-mail to
if I'm on-line how come it still goes to my isp and not directly to me? I'm
more than happy with that but I was just curious.
Andy
by Ken » Sat, 07 Aug 1999 04:00:00
> Hi,
> Just wondering, my e-mail address from my isp is
> to hot-shot.demon.co.uk, when my machine is online you can telnet to it by
> telneting to hot-shot.demon.co.uk. When someone sends an e-mail to
> if I'm on-line how come it still goes to my isp and not directly to me? I'm
> more than happy with that but I was just curious.
> Andy
by Martin Vermee » Fri, 13 Aug 1999 04:00:00
>Just wondering, my e-mail address from my isp is
>to hot-shot.demon.co.uk, when my machine is online you can telnet to it by
>telneting to hot-shot.demon.co.uk. When someone sends an e-mail to
>if I'm on-line how come it still goes to my isp and not directly to me? I'm
>more than happy with that but I was just curious.
When you connect with an SMTP server like sendmail mail from your POP3
mailbox is delivered to you through sendmail.
If Demon imidiatly send all your mail tou your SMTP server (sendmail) and
your machine is not connected to the Internet people sending you mail will
receive messages stating that demon was not able to delivere mail and that
it will be retried for a couple of hours. (or something like that)
To avoid this problem the invented the way they do it now. I think it is a
very good solution.
Demon gives an explanation of how it works on their homepage.
--
Martin
(at work)
1. Why does sendmail not deliver mail if home-directory is not available
Hi Folks,
I have a problem with the delivery of emails via sendmail:
SuSE Linux 6.1
Kernel 2.3.2
sendmail 8.9.3
I have one incoming mail-server (PC A) which is alway powered. The
mailboxes for all user are local to this mail-server. The forward-path
is local to this server (/etc/mail/forward/$u). Only the homes of the
users are on another PC (PC B) which is often switched off.
If both PCs are switched on, then the email is delivered successfully to
/var/spool/mail/$USER on PC .
My problem:
===========
If PC B is switched off, then the incoming email is only queued, but not
delivered?
Short question:
WHY ???
Thank you in advance for every support.
Kind regards
Andre
--
fff lll dd Andre Feld
ff ll dd Universtity of Technology Aachen
ff ll dd Institute for Communication Networks
ffff eeee ll ddddd Kopernikusstr. 16, 52074 Aachen, Germany
ff ee ee ll d dd Phone : +49-241-80-7912
ff eeeeee ll d dd Fax : +49-241-88-88242
ff eeee llllll ddd dd http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/~feld
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