From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 18 16:21: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from arnold.neland.dk (mail.neland.dk [194.255.12.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5BB41508B; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:20:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leif@neland.dk) Received: from gina (gina.neland.dk [192.168.0.14]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA19160; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:18:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leif@neland.dk) Message-ID: <006e01bf6212$ba40b740$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> From: "Leif Neland" To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: References: <20000118020736.E1AD4150AD@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ppp, incoming mail keeping the line up. Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:16:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" To: Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 3:07 AM Subject: Re: ppp, incoming mail keeping the line up. > >=20 > > I run user-ppp, and I have a mx-record for my system, so incoming = mail =3D > > goes directly to my system. >=20 > this is asking for trouble. you should get yourself an MX > that is online all the time and will store your mail for you. you can > then pick it up whenever you want using APOP or POP thru SSH....i > peronsally use APOP thru SSH via fetchmail ;) >=20 I have a higher numbered MX online all the time, and used to pick up by = ETRN. Now I pick up by uucp (just for the heck of it), but still have myself = as lowest MX, to get mail fast while online. I don't like fetchmail to handle all my adresses and aliases. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message