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Article #232Re: Newsbase and demon
From: Stewart Brodie
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 00:00
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In message <d7bb81b48%graham@greyhaven.demon.co.uk>
Graham Crockford <graham@greyhaven.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 1. Does FreeSMTP automatically categorise mail addressed to different users
> (user@domain.demon.co.uk) into different Newsbase directories? If the user
> is unknown to Newsbase, does it create a user?
FreeSMTP will check its aliases file for the delivery domain as stated in
the configuration file and apply any mapping it finds there.
Newsbase redirects mail for unknown users to the user postmaster.
> 3. Is there any way of making FreeSMTP display its progress as it
> transfers? If I've got a big mail on my server and am using SMTP, I'd have
> no idea what was going on as it downloaded; for example whether the mail is
> one which has been bounced back at me, or is a mailbomb.
No. FreeSMTP has no way of knowing how large the e-mail it is receiving is.
However, the status window will tell you that it is receiving e-mail/sending
e-mail and from whom or to whom it is.
--
Stewart Brodie, Software Engineer, Future Technologies Group
Acorn Computers Ltd
Acorn House, 645 Newmarket Road
Cambridge, CB5 8PB, United Kingdom WWW: http://www.acorn.com/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 114044,1115e6b7f7ef529d X-Google-Attributes: gid114044,public X-Google-Thread: 113320,1115e6b7f7ef529d X-Google-Attributes: gid113320,public From: Stewart Brodie <sbrodie@acorn.com> Subject: Re: Newsbase and demon Date: 1998/01/21 Message-ID: <480BE22284%sbrodie@acorn.com> X-Deja-AN: 317976850 References: <d7bb81b48%graham@greyhaven.demon.co.uk> X-NNTP-Poster: NewsHound v1.29 X-Posting-Agent: RISC OS Newsbase 0.59f Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd. Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.apps,demon.ip.support.archimedes