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I believe that this is the default. I have several email accounts that forward to powertechgroup.com, and I never have to go and clean them out. jte -- John Earl johnearl@powertechgroup.com The Powertech Group www.powertechgroup.com Seattle, Washington, USA +1 253-872-7788 ----- Original Message ----- From: <rob@dekko.com> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 01:21 PM Subject: Re: Testing email connection to the outside world > > If we start banging out 96 tests a day (60 minutes per hour * 24 hours / 1 > test every 15 minutes = 96 tests a day), can we get these accounts to > automatically delete the email upon forwarding them? > > Rob Berendt > -- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > Benjamin Franklin > > > > "John Earl" > <johnearl@powertech To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> > group.com> cc: > Sent by: Fax to: > midrange-l-admin@mi Subject: Re: Testing email connection to the outside world > drange.com > > > 12/31/2001 04:13 PM > Please respond to > midrange-l > > > > > > > You could purchase an Earthlink (or ATT or MSN, etc) account for > 20 bucks a month and have it forwarded to one of your Notes > accounts. I have an earthlink account that forwards to my > powertechgroup.com account and the turnaround time can be under a > second, and is seldom more than 3 seconds. > > jte > > > > > -- > John Earl > johnearl@powertechgroup.com > The Powertech Group www.powertechgroup.com > Seattle, Washington, USA +1 253-872-7788 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <rob@dekko.com> > To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 12:17 PM > Subject: Testing email connection to the outside world > > > > > > I have this project to verify that we can send and receive > email to the > > outside world. Duh, we can now, of course. The problem is > that they want > > some sort of program that every x minutes verifies that we > still can, and > > if not, perform appropriate actions. > > > > Options I have mulled around in my head include sending out an > email using > > SNDEMAIL and having it arrive into our Notes. The problem is > that if I do > > this internally the Cisco kid has it never really leaving us. > Performance > > wise this is a good thing - testing wise it isn't. We do this > alot. Our > > current testing methodology does do this and a Notes agent - > which executes > > the SNDEMAIL on the 400 and does an action when new mail > arrives into > > Notes. This actually tests quite alot. Many of our problems > have been > > internally. But it does leave out the line and problems with > the ISP. > > > > We thought of bouncing it off of yahoo or hotmail but the > turnaround is > > unacceptable. Yahoo has an out of office but I am not sure how > often it > > grinds out the out-of-office message. Yahoo also has a > forwarding to > > another address which sounds really cool but that only pumps it > out on > > occasion and not upon the receipt of new mail. > > > > Our Cisco kid have me this url to verify our email, but I don't > know how to > > utilize this information programmatically: > > http://www.zmailer.org/mxverify-cgi.html > > > > Perhaps an option is to get DSL set up to my home and have a > throwaway box > > there configured with it's own email domain to bounce back > messages. Work > > has already supplied my home PC and is currently paying for my > second phone > > line. Some other employees here have this DSL connection with > a VPN. We > > might be able to utilize them instead. > > > > Rob Berendt > > -- > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little > temporary > > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > > Benjamin Franklin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) > mailing list > > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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