Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:42:44 -0400 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Bern, Davis" <sui-juris@mail.com>, "Choudhury, Raj" <raj.choudhury@de.opel.com>, "def@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net" <def@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net>, "Duke, M.L." <mlduke@concentric.net>, "freebsd-questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "groggy@iname.com" <groggy@iname.com>, "Kerr, Greg" <akua@mailandnews.com>, "mark / badger?" <mark@wellgroomedbadger.co.uk> Subject: Re: questions list Message-ID: <20011008224329.BAD2E37B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 23:02:38 +0100, mark / badger? wrote: >Why not just use your ISPs mail server for all your mail as everyone else >on dial up or behind a NAT does? As far as I know there are not many >reasons to use a mail server in either of your situations you described >before (on a dial up or behind a NAT out of public namespace). I think I'm >right in saying mailservers should be constantly reachable in public and at >the same IP/hostname, and in either of those situations this is not the >case. >Why do you choose not to use the ISPs mail server? (genuinely interested to >know what benefits there are to running your server locally when you're on >dialup/behind a NAT, other than the ability to spam with more impunity) the reason i do it that way is so my pc doesn't get stuck uploading a 1.2 m attachment... but i have my MTA relay it to my isp --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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