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Date:      Thu, 29 Jun 1995 16:43:46 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        pechter@sesd.ilex.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Mail with PPP and non-fixed ip addresses.
Message-ID:  <199506290713.QAA22152@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199506281252.FAA05533@mail.barrnet.net> from "william pechter ILEX" at Jun 28, 95 08:50:49 am

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william pechter ILEX stands accused of saying:

> I just got my ppp connection and my provider's looking for a way to
> route mail to lakewood.com to my machine for distribution.
> 
> I've got a class C license for my local net at home.  I'm getting assigned
> an address for the PPP connection by his machine (BSDI v2.0).

Bleagh.  This is really suboptimal.  Get his system to route to your
Class C & use your address, not his, for your end of the connection.

> He's unsure of the way to do it and is considering holding my MX and
> using uucp to forward it over the ppp connection (since my ip varies with
> each ppp connection).

That'd work.

> Is there a better way to do it using sendmail (either Sendmail v8 or
> IDA) and smtp directly.

No, smtp is send-only.

> His other alternative is dropping all the mail to my domain into my
> shell account on his machine and having me ftp it and deal
> with dispersal locally.

How many local users do you have?  You could use popclient and a pop3
server at his end.

> I know someone here's going to have a better way to do it.

Doing it 'right' involves routing to your class C properly.

>  Bill Pechter |Systems Administrator  | N2RDI

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