From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 15:43:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAD2E37B405 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:43:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22681 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2001 22:43:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.135.87) by smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 8 Oct 2001 22:43:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 8325 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2001 22:43:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mother) (192.168.1.2) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 8 Oct 2001 22:43:20 -0000 From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Bern, Davis" , "Choudhury, Raj" , "def@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net" , "Duke, M.L." , "freebsd-questions" , "groggy@iname.com" , "Kerr, Greg" , "mark / badger?" Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:42:44 -0400 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: questions list Message-Id: <20011008224329.BAD2E37B405@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 23:02:38 +0100, mark / badger? wrote: >Why not just use your ISPs mail server for all your mail as everyone else >on dial up or behind a NAT does? As far as I know there are not many >reasons to use a mail server in either of your situations you described >before (on a dial up or behind a NAT out of public namespace). I think I'm >right in saying mailservers should be constantly reachable in public and at >the same IP/hostname, and in either of those situations this is not the >case. >Why do you choose not to use the ISPs mail server? (genuinely interested to >know what benefits there are to running your server locally when you're on >dialup/behind a NAT, other than the ability to spam with more impunity) the reason i do it that way is so my pc doesn't get stuck uploading a 1.2 m attachment... but i have my MTA relay it to my isp --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message