From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 16: 0:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD5537BB52 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:00:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12LwNX-000P9N-00; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:00:03 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12LwNX-00015v-00; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:00:03 +0000 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:00:03 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Steve Hovey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off topic mostly SMTP question Message-ID: <20000218230003.J444@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000218154117.B6630@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000218154117.B6630@hades.hell.gr> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 11:24:41AM -0500, Steve Hovey wrote: >> >> I know if you have a dial up that wants to use SMTP to gate their email, >> that if they have a static IP you can set it for ETRN to kick their spool. >> >> Is there any known kludge for supporting smtp for a dialup without a >> static IP? > > Yeap, sendmail calls it SMART_HOST, qmail calls it smtproutes, but the > general idea is to push the mail to your ISP's mail server and let *it* > handle the load :) ... and Exim calls it the domainlist router. Anyway, I think you misunderstand. Steve wants to use SMTP to deliver mail *to* a dynamic IP dialup, if I'm reading his message right. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message