Date: 26 Jan 1998 22:43:06 -0000 From: alchemy@inconnect.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: e-mail w/dynamic IPs Message-ID: <19980126224306.3434.qmail@shell.inconnect.com>
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Woo-hoo! I'm receiving the list again! Ok, big important question here for anyone who can help! Recently, I set up sendmail and fetchmail on my FreeBSD box at home. I have little or no experience with the programs; aside from knowing what they do, I know nothing about how to operate them. In my /etc/hosts file, I have my domain set as magus.inconnect.com. This is purely to distinguish my home machine from inconnect.com and is a dynamic IP (i.e., I'm not registered to InterNIC or any other DNS). The big problem I'm having is with only certain domains (FreeBSD.org is one of them). Whenever I send e-mail to these domains, I always end up with a message from Mailer-Daemon saying that magus.inconnect.com must resolve. Obviously, this is currently impossible (but may become possible in the future). So, to compose e-mail to these domains, I have to rlogin to inconnect.com, invoke a mailx (or pine or whatever) process, compose the e-mail, and send it off. This is becoming quite an inconvenience. I would like to use my regular e-mail program(s) and have everything work fine for all domains. Could any of you help me make this so? I would appreciate any help that anyone could offer! And please don't tell me it can't be done! That would be heartbreaking! Since I am a poor starving college student, I can't afford the outrageous prices for an ISDN/dedicated connection yet. Thanks! -- Anthony C. Chavez <alchemy@inconnect.com>
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