I used to face the same problem when I was trying to use a dial up
connection to serve 15 ppl :). The combined browsing used to choke the
bandwidth. What I would suggest you do is to configure sendmail to
deliver to your ISP's mail server instead of doing a direct delivery.
Ofcourse it depends a lot on who your ISP is. When I was using it last
year Mantra's mail server used to take ages to actually deliver the
emails. I believe Satyam might have simillar problems. VSNL used to be
pretty decent. Your mileage would vary with other ISP's.
Please note rediff.com does a reverse lookup of your ip address before
accepting emails. You better have a FQDN even for your dial up account
before you send emails to rediff.com . I personally used to have lots of
problem with mail deliveries to Hotmail and Yahoo's servers in those
days.
Mithun
PS: I am on a 256Kbps leased line now so no more such issues :).
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