Re: alternatives to ETRN

[Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>]

> Well,
> 
> 	The discussion quickly went away from ETRN, so more than likely I
> have to hack something together that accepts a message with a domain in it
> and telnets to port 25, says EHLO and the ETRN domain.
> 
> 	Any errors in this?

Your customer needs to write following type of SH script:

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#! /bin/sh
(echo "ETRN customer.domain"; sleep 2) | telnet the.isp.smtp.server smtp
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After they get their link up, they need to execute that script, and
wait up to 30 seconds before feed starts.

> 		Imre

/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>