From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 08:53:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23666 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:53:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23657 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:53:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id IAA01097; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:53:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow 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: > 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. If you're down, but still findable via DNS, the mail will be spooled on the sender's system. Unless the downtimes are for more than 3 or 4 days (sendmail has a default 5 day wait before bounce) that's all you should need. Off site secondaries are pretty much a relic of the good old UUCP days. > 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. Better get that from him in writing if you are depending on receiving mail. What happens if they give you a new IP address and your old one goes to someone else? Best case is that the mail is refused, worst is that it goes to a competitor and is accepted. > > 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 at all. You can hurt yourself using it but wielded properly it can make your life a lot easier. Just way overkill for refusing email to certain addresses. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message