Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:15:49 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Message-ID: <199808092015.IAA20066@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980809111106.27384K-100000@java.dpcsys.com> References: <199808091318.BAA06901@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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On 9 Aug 98, at 11:15, Dan Busarow wrote: > > solution seems to apply to me. That is, make my ISP a secondary server to > > myself. > > Since you have a permanent connection you don't need to go to this > trouble. The mail will come in on its own once you make yourself > primary MX. you can make the ISP secondary if you want but it is > not necessary. Well, permanent in the sense that I don't dial up with a modem. Over the past 6 months or so, it's been down about 3 or 4 times. In such circumstances, my ISP, as the secondary server, would store the mail. Mail would be forwarded to my mail server by my ISP when the connection returned. 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. > > Sendmail is up and running on my machine. Mail sent to my freebsd box > > gets out into the realworld. I'm guessing that what I need to do is > > install procmail, which is a local mail delivery agent. Is that correct? > > Installing procmail is a good idea, but not for this problem. It > will give you more control over local delivery than you've yet dreamed > of. :) OH. You say that as if it's something I might regret if I tried it. :) -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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