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In article <834364364.8135.0@rainbow.fishnet.co.uk>
           chris@fishnet.co.uk "Chris Paterson" writes:

> Where do I find documentation on how to interface with the Demon mail
> service ?
> 
> SMTP transmission - no problem, but receiving...
> 
> ie. how do I kick the postal service (announce myself politely) to let
> it know I am ready to receive mail ?

You make a connection to Demon.  That's it, no kicking or anything of the
sort; the mere presence of your IP node "on" the system is sufficient for
the punts to be told to start shifting e-mail out to your box.

If unable to make that connection at that time, each punt will try again
to reconnect to you after some interval of time (provided it has any mail
queued for you, of course).  ISTR that this interval is three minutes,
but it might be five, or some other number.

Since this notification to the punts occurs within only a few seconds or
less of your first completing SLIP/PPP connection, then you had better be
sure that your system is running an SMTP server to field the incoming
connections.  Mail typically starts arriving well before the NTP client
has corrected one's system clock.  If you cannot get the SMTP server at
your end into operation early enough, you'll have to stay on-line for the
3 (or 5, or whatever) period until the punts make their next attempts.

I note that you're using Forte's Free Agent for posting.  This does *not*
have the capability of receiving SMTP connections, so I hope that you've
got something else running on your system to field the incoming requests
from the client processes on the punts.  Forte's Agent, for which you
have to pay (although a merely nominal amount) does incorporate an SMTP
server, but otherwise to continue using Free Agent, you will want
something to receive mail by SMTP and then act as a POP3 server (local to
your own machine) so that FA can "download" the mail.

> Thanks for any help

This question didn't really belong in demon.ip.developers.  The general
question of when the punts kick in to deliver might belong in
demon.ip.support (or d.i.s.newuser, if applicable).  Questions concerning
how to configure a Windows-based system so that FA can be used with a
local POP3 server should be asked in the relevant platform-specific
newsgroup, which in this case is d.i.s.winsock (unless you're running FA
under Win'95, when d.i.s.win95 would be more relevant).

Look in d.i.s, d.i.s.newuser, demon.answers, demon.news, or demon.service
for a copy of Richard Ashton's excellent "Which Group?" FAQ to choose
better the group for your future postings.

Posted and e-mailed (so that you can be assured that something is queued
up for you:-)

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
                       "A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy"    
                                                          --  Samuel Johnson