Subj : A little help...
To   : Andrew Leary
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue May 09 2006 07:51 pm

ml> all i ever did was to ensure that at least one node of my
ml> multinode setup was available during ZMH with no caller
ml> access... all other nodes took callers at will...

AL> My nodelisted number has a mailer on it which observes ZMH.

same here... my main POTS line is the ZMH one... when i had rollover lines in
place, my listed number was the last of the rollovers... that way, all i had to
do was to ensure that that one node/task followed policy and observed ZMH... it
took me a little while to understand that ZMH observance really meant that the
line must be available for /incoming/ *netmail* calls only... when i first
started in fidonet, i thought ZMH was like a fallback for all fidonet mail
connections so i held certain netmail and echomail until then... i don't recall
when the bulb actually lit up but when it did, it made things a bit easier and
i actually set up so that i didn't attempt to send any netmail during ZMH until
after half of it had passed... that was i was available to receive all of ZMH
unless i was trying to deliver during the last 30 minutes of ZMH and then my
system only dialed like once every 5 minutes or some such...

AL> My Telnet/VModem node currently is running Binkley as well,
AL> although I'm seriously considering removing that when I move
AL> the BBS to its new machine.  99.9% of my mail is moved via BinkD
AL> anyway, with a couple of low traffic links using TransX or
AL> Internet Rex.  I actually use IRex here too, just to deliver SMTP
AL> mail through my ISP's server.  I didn't feel like trying to
AL> decipher IBM's version of SENDMAIL, especially since my ISP
AL> requires authentication to relay mail.

there are other dropin replacements that can easily be used... i believe that
WEASEL can authenticate for relays... i use WEASEL with a small script so that
programs that use sendmail will work and they don't know any better... the free
version works great and i've a healthy list of "blacklist" systems which helps
to prevent the riffraff from getting through or abusing my system... my
blacklist covers a huge amount of asian territory O:)

AL> Someday when I have nothing else to do I'll play with IBM's OS/2
AL> version of SENDMAIL.  Of course, right now I'm schedule to be busy
AL> until 2 years after I die. ;-)

i know that feeling... i also would no worry about that sendmail stuff... take
a look at WEASEL... i'm going to be registering it so that i can more easily
handle multiple domain stuff... seems that the author views subdomains and
seperate domains :(

)\/(ark


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