From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 17:17:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14512 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 17:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14487 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 17:17:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA08073; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:46:18 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA13632; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:46:17 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980810094617.Z11095@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:46:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly References: <199808092015.IAA20066@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; <19980810082552.J11095@freebie.lemis.com> <199808100014.MAA08319@terminator2.xtra.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808100014.MAA08319@terminator2.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 12:14:49PM +1200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 10 August 1998 at 12:14:49 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > On 10 Aug 98, at 8:25, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> 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. >> >> Ugh. Can you get them to change that? Or to route an IP block? > > No. I just tried. ADSL is on a trial basis. They aren't willing to get > into static IPs now. Mind you, they are a telco. > >> Not really. But dynamically assigned IPs are a work of >> Bill^H^H^H^Hthe devil. > > Yeah, well, that's what I got in the meantime. > > I think I'll give up on this idea. I think my next course of action is to > find out how I can get my mail from my ISP's pop3 server into my mail > server. > > ideas? Other have said "fetchmail", which runs on SMTP. That would be my preference. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message