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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:00:03 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Off topic mostly SMTP question
Message-ID:  <20000218230003.J444@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000218154117.B6630@hades.hell.gr>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002171123300.13651-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> <20000218154117.B6630@hades.hell.gr>

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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 11:24:41AM -0500, Steve Hovey wrote:
>> 
>> I know if you have a dial up that wants to use SMTP to gate their email,
>> that if they have a static IP you can set it for ETRN to kick their spool.
>> 
>> Is there any known kludge for supporting smtp for a dialup without a
>> static IP?
> 
> Yeap, sendmail calls it SMART_HOST, qmail calls it smtproutes, but the
> general idea is to push the mail to your ISP's mail server and let *it*
> handle the load :)

... and Exim calls it the domainlist router.

Anyway, I think you misunderstand. Steve wants to use SMTP to deliver
mail *to* a dynamic IP dialup, if I'm reading his message right.

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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