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In article <31DAF9CF.2FF72E24@zip.com.au> "Grahame M. Kelly" <gmkelly@zip.com.au> writes:
>From: "Grahame M. Kelly" <gmkelly@zip.com.au>
>Subject: [Q] How to set up sendmail queuing on occasional PPP link
>Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 08:53:03 +1000

>Hi,

>I am setting up my system to down-line-load (DLL) mail & news using
>fetchpop for mail and newsdump for news.  DLL works well.  The problem
>I am having is uploading mail & news.  I make a PPP link four times
>a day, and have this evoked by a cron job. While this is no big deal
>I cannot see how to :

>1> Trigger sendmail (if this is the best medium to use) to upload mail
>   at the time I have a active PPP link.
 
My setup is basically as per the 'Linux Mail Queue mini-HOWTO' . Basically
it sets all external mail to 'expensive' and only sends it with sendmail -q , 
which you can run from ip-up or whatever.  If you are connecting every 6 hours 
you may be able to just use the sendmail -q without any other mods.


>2> How do I get sendmail to know the sender address is the address on
>   the ISP machine and not the ID at the local machine. ie: to know
>   that sender is gmkelly@zip.com.au and not root@local_machine.

I use the same user name on local and remote machines and use the sendmail.cf 
to rewrite the the domain name . (Domain Masquradeing?) 
You could probably rewrite the user name as well.

>3> Triggering News send?? I don't know which program is best or do I
>   simply utilise the sendmail to post to a newsgroup (How?) rather
>   than to email.
I use 'suck' and it had a script file included that sends the news as well.

>4> Any other suggestions or guidance?