Does anyone know how to get domino to promt an ISP’s mail server for SMTP mail like the finger command used by exchange to do the same?
Subject: You mean like this?
Subject: RE: You mean like this?
Thats all well and good, but what if an ISP does not support ETRN (some don’t you know).
Can the “Finger” command be used by Domino in this case (maybe via a batch file run from a program document ?)
Somebody out there must use the Finger Command…
Thanks,
Steven
Subject: RE: You mean like this?
thanks for your responses. The ISP doesnt support ETRN. Time to look again.
Subject: RE: You mean like this?
Whenever I get into this situation I recommend an ISP switch.
Alternatively, I switch mail delivery to POP3 instead of SMTP routing and use a POP3->SMTP mail converter. This schedules via a program document in the NAB and acts as a relay pulling mail from the ISP via POP3 and sending it to domino via SMTP.
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ISP switch is best.
Using POP to collect mail for onward forwarding by SMTP or any other MTA is very risky as the envelope information (both forward and reverse) does not survive the transition.
This kills any message where the To: header is not the same as the RCPT TO envelope and the two can often be different for very good reasons (BCC to name but one).
Subject: The Answer to SMTP!!!
I have finally sorted this out, the isp does not support ETRN, however they advised me that they use the finger command as in the original question. I have worked out the answer.finger is a dos command which when followed by your domain.theirsmtpserver.com queries the queue on their server and tells you how many messages are queued and then releases them. In Domino using external programs call the name of the program ‘Finger’ and the command line the domain.theirdomain.etc this runs the dos command from the domino console and it works.
To try another example, call the program name ‘PING’ and the command line any IP address. set the frequency to every minute and then watch the console! hope this helps someone.
Subject: SMTP
an interesting question! But I really don’t konw