Situation: You would like outgoing mail from your computer to be sent to the mail.big.isp SMTP server when you dial in. These instructions assume that serialmail and ucspi-tcp/tcpclient are already installed on your computer. 1. Put :alias-ppp into /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains, and give qmail-send a SIGHUP. 2. As the alias user (not as root): Run maildirmake ~/pppdir and put ./pppdir/ (including the final slash) into ~/.qmail-ppp-default. Now all outgoing messages will be stored in ~alias/pppdir. 3. Make sure that mail.big.isp allows relaying from your computer's IP address. 4. To send messages to mail.big.isp, run maildirsmtp ~alias/pppdir alias-ppp- 1.2.3.4 `hostname` Replace 1.2.3.4 with the IP address of mail.big.isp. For faster transfers, if your ISP has set up a QMTP server, run maildirqmtp ~alias/pppdir alias-ppp- 1.2.3.4 instead.