From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 26 9:41:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from users.anet-stl.com (users.anet-stl.com [209.145.150.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB8814EC9 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 09:41:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doogie@anet-stl.com) Received: from earth.anet-stl.com (doogie@earth.anet-stl.com [209.83.128.12]) by users.anet-stl.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA46763; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:40:06 GMT Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:40:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Young To: "Mike Avery (on the road)" Cc: "Freebsd-ISP (E-mail)" Subject: RE: why not uucp, instead of smtp and static ip? In-Reply-To: <298022A3C31@mail.otherwhen.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Mike Avery (on the road) wrote: > >From my point of view, I don't want to be tied to a vendor, to an > ISP. Some ISP's disappear without warning. Some get bought > and the service goes to hell in a handbasket. > > So.... I want my own mailboxes at myname.com, not at > yourname.com. That way, if my ISP jerks me around - and it > happens - I can call other vendors, find one more compatible with > my goals, and then arrange for an orderly switchover, even it > means paying the old ISP for a few extra months of service. In > short, I don't want to look at POP3 accounts at your site. Most ISPs (us, for example) have the ability to take a given domain you have with them (mydomain.com) and funnel all its mail into an account luser@isp.com. This is more than likely the setup you'd use to retrieve all of mydomain.com's mail. If you want to take mydomain.com elsewhere, transfer it and have your new ISP create a similar setup. Jason Young ANET/accessUS Chief Network Engineer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message