From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 13:16:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19159 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:16:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19154 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:16:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA20066; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:15:49 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808092015.IAA20066@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Dan Busarow Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:15:49 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199808091318.BAA06901@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 9 Aug 98, at 11:15, Dan Busarow wrote: > > solution seems to apply to me. That is, make my ISP a secondary server to > > myself. > > Since you have a permanent connection you don't need to go to this > trouble. The mail will come in on its own once you make yourself > primary MX. you can make the ISP secondary if you want but it is > not necessary. Well, permanent in the sense that I don't dial up with a modem. Over the past 6 months or so, it's been down about 3 or 4 times. In such circumstances, my ISP, as the secondary server, would store the mail. Mail would be forwarded to my mail server by my ISP when the connection returned. A curly one: My connection may be permanent. But my IP is not. It's assigned via DHCP. There must be some mechanism for my ISP to update the DNS dynamically. > > 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? > > Installing procmail is a good idea, but not for this problem. It > will give you more control over local delivery than you've yet dreamed > of. :) OH. You say that as if it's something I might regret if I tried it. :) -- 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