I'm exposing you a problem on behalf of a friend.... The configuration:
One Linux machine acting as a router/gateway and a couple windows machines acting as clients. The Linux box has the modem and can set up a connection to the ISP using PPP. The problem: If the Linux box is online with the ISP, mail messages originating at the windows machines are delivered to the Linux box that sends them outside. That's fine. If the Linux box is off-line, whenever a windows client attempts to queue a message on the Linux box, smail tries to DNS-lookup the recipient address and, being off-line, fails and rejects the message. Windows keeps then the message in queue for later delivery. This is no good: such a situation implies that both the Linux gateway and the windows machine are on while, at night time, the gateway moves the mail through the modem. The requirement is that only the Linux box be active 24h/day, not also the windows boxes. Trashing windows is not a possible solutions because 1) one of the boxes is "daddy's box", and trashing windows would imply trashing dad too :-) 2) some cool software requires windows, I've tried to convince the friend that he really doesn't need that kind of software, but trying to convince a dog to say "meow" would be easier :-) Any help? Pf -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx | http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.6 #1 Sat Apr 17 22:56:44 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
