Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:25:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Message-ID: <19980810082552.J11095@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199808092015.IAA20066@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 08:15:49AM %2B1200 References: <199808091318.BAA06901@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980809111106.27384K-100000@java.dpcsys.com> <199808092015.IAA20066@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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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
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