-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Doug,
I appreciate you taking the time to provide the explanation. I still do not understand why I would need a domain name to do what I want to do. I currently retrieve my email from multiple POP3 accounts using fetchmail. I was using my ISP's SMTP server to send mail out. However, I thought that this could be bypassed, with my outgoing email going directly to wherever (i.e., [email protected]). I am not overly converned about how a reply might get back to me because I have my "respond to" field filled with a valid POP3 address. So why can't I do this? Kory On Friday 30 August 2002 8:40 pm, Doug Riddle wrote: > 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9cCYtUoGHsPHkAUoRAjIuAJ9UDbpd87KgGNpUo8dgVHWmQj2P8wCfezYm Ncj2fjtC3S14gVU9k86NRos= =rnBm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
