From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 16:07:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05186 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 16:07:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com (link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05173 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 16:06:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) X-Disclaimer: Contents of this e-mail are the writer's opinion X-Disclaimer2: and may not be quoted, re-produced or forwarded X-Disclaimer3: (in part or whole) without the author's permission. Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com (8.9.1+3.0W/8.9.1) with SMTP id BAA03252; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 01:06:11 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 01:06:09 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: Dan Langille cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly In-Reply-To: <199808092015.IAA20066@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Dan Langille wrote: >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. Not as easy as it sounds. Easier to participate in a DyDNS project, like the one at http://www.ml.org Dunno if they've got a UNIX client; but it's a solution (although maybe not a good one). >You say that as if it's something I might regret if I tried it. :) Procmail is a very hairy beast. I've only managed to get it to filter based on subject, from, sender and to (and variations thereof). Still got to work on message body parsing and the like. I am of course referring to the .procmailrc --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za UUNET Internet Africa Support * FreeBSD enthusiast-www2.za.freebsd.org FreeBSD: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message