As someone indicated earlier, by-passing your ISP requires another destination. Ergo, you would need a domain, a webmail account or somewhere for the mail to be sent. Without a static IP Address it is problematic. A dial up or a DHCP address will not do. For a mail sever you need a "always on" connection. If it is not a static IP you need to really stay on top of it and change your DNS if the address changes. Secondly, as mentioned, you will need a DNS service. I use Easyspace, they register my domain and provide the DNS routing for free.
I host my domain remotely and can redirect the mail to my local sever, hold it at my domain and access it as webmail or direct it to my yahoo account. Since Cox uses DHCP, and I am WAY TOO CHEAP to pop for a static address, I use the yahoo account. I can suggest a mentor or two that do run local domains and mail servers. I have done it, just to see if I could, but keeping it active was way too much work due to dhcp. Most of the information I needed I got out of "Running Linux", http:\\www.tldp.org, http:\\www.debian.org and the libranet users email list. I set it up, it worked, Cox punted my modem and assigned a new IP address 48 or so hours later, I lost two or three emails and went back to Yahoo. --- Mnemonic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Doug, > > I have not tried setting up Mutt. I already have fetchmail up and > running. I > was playing with Kmail when I decided I wanted to bypass my ISP's > mail > server. I suspect my desire to do this academic. I am curious to > know > whether or not this is possible. > > - -K > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE9cBk8UoGHsPHkAUoRAtb2AJ46bzDDkDgYAs8sZmtDdbbgcXf4pQCeK8Au > Nx7VjdkZxruevj3sKNi3BbU= > =9/wE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle http://www.dougriddle.com ## Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington ## __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com
