From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 26 14:44:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12774 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:44:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.inconnect.com (mail.inconnect.com [207.173.163.7] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA12540 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:43:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alchemy@inconnect.com) From: alchemy@inconnect.com Received: (qmail 372 invoked from network); 26 Jan 1998 22:43:07 -0000 Received: from ultra1.inconnect.com (HELO shell.inconnect.com) (209.140.64.2) by mail.inconnect.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 1998 22:43:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 3435 invoked by uid 2737); 26 Jan 1998 22:43:06 -0000 Date: 26 Jan 1998 22:43:06 -0000 Message-ID: <19980126224306.3434.qmail@shell.inconnect.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: e-mail w/dynamic IPs Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Woo-hoo! I'm receiving the list again! Ok, big important question here for anyone who can help! Recently, I set up sendmail and fetchmail on my FreeBSD box at home. I have little or no experience with the programs; aside from knowing what they do, I know nothing about how to operate them. In my /etc/hosts file, I have my domain set as magus.inconnect.com. This is purely to distinguish my home machine from inconnect.com and is a dynamic IP (i.e., I'm not registered to InterNIC or any other DNS). The big problem I'm having is with only certain domains (FreeBSD.org is one of them). Whenever I send e-mail to these domains, I always end up with a message from Mailer-Daemon saying that magus.inconnect.com must resolve. Obviously, this is currently impossible (but may become possible in the future). So, to compose e-mail to these domains, I have to rlogin to inconnect.com, invoke a mailx (or pine or whatever) process, compose the e-mail, and send it off. This is becoming quite an inconvenience. I would like to use my regular e-mail program(s) and have everything work fine for all domains. Could any of you help me make this so? I would appreciate any help that anyone could offer! And please don't tell me it can't be done! That would be heartbreaking! Since I am a poor starving college student, I can't afford the outrageous prices for an ISDN/dedicated connection yet. Thanks! -- Anthony C. Chavez