Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:40:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Young <doogie@anet-stl.com> To: "Mike Avery (on the road)" <mavery@mail.otherwhen.com> Cc: "Freebsd-ISP (E-mail)" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: why not uucp, instead of smtp and static ip? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990626113826.4305A-100000@earth.anet-stl.com> In-Reply-To: <298022A3C31@mail.otherwhen.com>
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On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Mike Avery (on the road) wrote: > >From my point of view, I don't want to be tied to a vendor, to an > ISP. Some ISP's disappear without warning. Some get bought > and the service goes to hell in a handbasket. > > So.... I want my own mailboxes at myname.com, not at > yourname.com. That way, if my ISP jerks me around - and it > happens - I can call other vendors, find one more compatible with > my goals, and then arrange for an orderly switchover, even it > means paying the old ISP for a few extra months of service. In > short, I don't want to look at POP3 accounts at your site. Most ISPs (us, for example) have the ability to take a given domain you have with them (mydomain.com) and funnel all its mail into an account luser@isp.com. This is more than likely the setup you'd use to retrieve all of mydomain.com's mail. If you want to take mydomain.com elsewhere, transfer it and have your new ISP create a similar setup. Jason Young ANET/accessUS Chief Network Engineer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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