From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 15:56:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04130 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 15:56:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04110 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 15:56:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA07762; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:25:53 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA12871; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:25:52 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980810082552.J11095@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:25:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, Dan Busarow Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly References: <199808091318.BAA06901@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> <199808092015.IAA20066@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808092015.IAA20066@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 08:15:49AM +1200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 10 August 1998 at 8:15:49 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > On 9 Aug 98, at 11:15, Dan Busarow wrote: > >>> solution seems to apply to me. That is, make my ISP a secondary server to >>> myself. >> >> Since you have a permanent connection you don't need to go to this >> trouble. The mail will come in on its own once you make yourself >> primary MX. you can make the ISP secondary if you want but it is >> not necessary. > > Well, permanent in the sense that I don't dial up with a modem. Over > the past 6 months or so, it's been down about 3 or 4 times. In such > circumstances, my ISP, as the secondary server, would store the mail. > Mail would be forwarded to my mail server by my ISP when the > connection returned. Sure. That's what secondary MXs are for. > A curly one: My connection may be permanent. But my IP is not. It's > assigned via DHCP. There must be some mechanism for my ISP to > update the DNS dynamically. Ugh. Can you get them to change that? Or to route an IP block? >>> Sendmail is up and running on my machine. Mail sent to my freebsd box >>> gets out into the realworld. I'm guessing that what I need to do is >>> install procmail, which is a local mail delivery agent. Is that correct? >> >> Installing procmail is a good idea, but not for this problem. It >> will give you more control over local delivery than you've yet dreamed >> of. :) > > OH. > > You say that as if it's something I might regret if I tried it. :) Not really. But dynamically assigned IPs are a work of Bill^H^H^H^Hthe devil. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message