From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 11:51:10 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA12619 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 11:51:10 -0700 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA12612 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 11:51:09 -0700 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02945; Mon, 24 Apr 95 13:50:37 CDT From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9504241850.AA02945@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: dumb Q. on sendmail To: current@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:50:37 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <199504231638.SAA01420@jette.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 23, 95 06:38:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 904 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > But the smarthost would not prevent you from the following: > > While you're actually connected to the net, it's highly probable > that there will be several outgoing messages from freefall (e.g.) > just within that time. Since freefall can reach your system > directly, it will use this link instead of any less-preferrable > MX. As the result, while you can upload your batched mails quickly ...which is, obviously, why you do not advertise your machine with a more preferable MX. :-) Or, for that matter, at all. Let your ISP do some work on your behalf, rather than just letting them suck up the contents of your wallet. :-) They should be more than willing to queue your mail. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847