Topic: email + dialling

[Nev Wain]

Hello

I am a relative "newbie" to esmith having run a server based on a generic Linux install for about 18 months - I don't mind getting my hands dirty!

I have two queries - the first concerns email delivery from my ISP.  I have tinkered with the delivery options via the web interface and cannot preven the following auto generated message from my ISP. "Demon Internet currently offers two ways of accessing email.

In one, SMTP, the SMTP client running on the mail machines at Demon
sends email to a SMTP server (or "daemon") on your machine and then
deletes it on the Demon machines.

In the other, POP3, the POP3 server offers the client a
list of files; the client then chooses which of these files
to retrive or to download.

When both ways are used simultaneously, it can happen that
a message that was initially found and offered by the POP3
server is then delivered and deleted by the SMTP client;
when the POP3 client then requests it, it is gone.

That has just happened.

The message hasn't been lost; it has merely been delivered
through another channel.  You should find it elsewhere in your
mailbox.

The easiest way to prevent this from occurring in the future
is to not use POP3 and SMTP simultaneously."

Any suggestions please?

- the second is how to stop the modem being aggressive in it's dialling habit.... I have only one 'phone line and the modem grabs the line and dials ...even when my wife is using the line.  I am getting some grief about this (as you may well understand)

Sorry for the long post, but any help gratefuly accepted.

Thanks in advance.

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Nev

[Jeff Martin]

Stephen Noble's dialin rpm might help your dial-up problem found at ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/StephenNoble/RPMS/noarch/

Good Luck

Jeff

[Nev Wain]

Thanks Jeff

I will have a look at this topic.

Many thanks for the response.

Regards

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Nev