Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:46:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Message-ID: <19980810094617.Z11095@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199808100014.MAA08319@terminator2.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 12:14:49PM %2B1200 References: <199808092015.IAA20066@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; <19980810082552.J11095@freebie.lemis.com> <199808100014.MAA08319@terminator2.xtra.co.nz>
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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
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