Ashwin on Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:06:56PM +0530 rearranged electrons thusly:
> Gee Suresh, all I wanted was to send out mail from lil PC at home
> regardless of which ISP I connected to.
What I mentioned - different smtp servers in the DS lines - stop and restart
sendmail - is the best (and most foolproof) way. As for dns lookups and
delivery - your ISP has far better bandwidth than you do - and they are
connected 24*7 to the net. So any mail that is deferred will be delivered
quite soon - not remain stuck in your mailqueue.
That's another reason NOT to simply send mails from your local dialup instead
of smarthosting (using DS) through your ISP's smtp server.
> And Jiju - will flashmail.com slow down my mail delivery? And No, Iam not
> upto writing any scripts - yet.
smtp.flashmail.com is located in the usa. it will naturally be slower.
> Let me try swapping to mantra's smtp and see if they also reject relays.
connect to the smtp server of whichever isp you are dialing into. Easy to
switch one single comment in sendmail.cf and restart sendmail - less than 1
minute.
-suresh
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