On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:12:49 -0500 Mnemonic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. What you want to do _used_ to work, but it really doesn't work well anymore. For the first few years that I used Linux (1994 till about 1998), I exclusively had my mail programs (command line mail, exmh, XFMail) pass messages to sendmail (or qmail) to send to remote servers, bypassing my ISP. Worked fine even with a dynamic IP - back then. Indeed, I took much comfort from looking in the my mail log and seeing sendmail's "message received OK" entry. It doesnt work anymore because mail servers started doing reverse lookups on senders. Your mail server program (sendmail,postfix,etc.) identifies itself to remote servers with your box's hostname, and if the remote server cant resolve it, they won't take your mail. It would work if you had some script setup to change your hostname each time you connected to the internet, then restarted your mail server...but who wants an everchanging hostname? ..And who wants to look at a prompt like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/bozo# :( Blame it on spam.
