Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:53:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980810084001.1024B-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <199808092015.IAA20066@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Dan Langille wrote: > 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. If you're down, but still findable via DNS, the mail will be spooled on the sender's system. Unless the downtimes are for more than 3 or 4 days (sendmail has a default 5 day wait before bounce) that's all you should need. Off site secondaries are pretty much a relic of the good old UUCP days. > 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. Better get that from him in writing if you are depending on receiving mail. What happens if they give you a new IP address and your old one goes to someone else? Best case is that the mail is refused, worst is that it goes to a competitor and is accepted. > > 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. :) Not at all. You can hurt yourself using it but wielded properly it can make your life a lot easier. Just way overkill for refusing email to certain addresses. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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