[courier-users] Re: Forward non local mail to one smtp host and others

[Sam V. <mr...@co...>]

Sean Rima writes: 

> Hi Sam! 
> 
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 
> 
>> Sean Rima writes:  
>> 
>> >Still trying to work out howto make courier hold outbound emails till I 
>> >tell
>> >it to send, but that is not a major thingy. 
>> 
>> If remote mail can't go out because the circuit is down, mail will be held 
>> in the queue automatically.  
>> 
> 
> The onoly problem is that I use Diald and any attempt by Courier would bring
> diald up. But tests to date have proved that Courier is faster than postfix.
> I may change my setup slightly so that Diald won't be brought up by smtp
> transactions.

If you don't mind a little scripting, you can probably hack something 
together.  Have a script replace /etc/resolv.conf with an empty file when 
the line goes down, and another script restore the correct /etc/resolv.conf 
when your line comes up. 


-- 
Sam