Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 01:18:10 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: receiving mail directly Message-ID: <199808091318.BAA06901@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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Hi. Here's a bunch of questions about my mail and how I'd like to receive it. I have a permanent connection to my ISP via ADSL. At present, all mail for my domains is delivered direct to my ISP. I then download it with an email client. One problem I have with my email is spam to old addresses which I no longer use but are part of my domain (eg. xyz@mydomain.com). I have two domains. The mail for one (dvl.co.nz) gets sent to one of my ISPs. My other domain (dvl-software.com) is a virtual domain handled by my web site host. Mail sent to that domain is controlled by a .redirect file on my virtual machine at that host (I don't fully understand how it works; I just know how to add entries to the .redirect file to forward mail from spot to spot). What I would like to do is exercise more control over the current situation. Specifically, I'd like mail sent to dan@dvl.co.nz to be bounced back to the sender, never to be seen my me again. Similary, mail to dan.langille@dvl-software.com, I'd like to let through. I've read the stuff in the handbook (17.3.3. How can I do E-Mail with a dialup PPP host? http://www.au.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/handbook/handbook253.html#497) and that solution seems to apply to me. That is, make my ISP a secondary server to myself. Does this make sense? 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? How does procmail (incoming?) differ from sendmail (outgoing)? -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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