On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:35:50AM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: ... >Register your domain name with a domain name registrar. Mail that >can't be delivered to you right away gets queued for later delivery. >When your upstream provider goes away, you point DNS at a new provider >and, presto, your mail gets delivered.
To make this reliable one must have at least one backup MX (Mail eXchange) forwarder that will accept mail when your main server isn't reachable. Furthermore your broadband provider must allow incoming and outgoing SMTP traffic to your site. I know that @home here in the Seattle area blocks outgoing port 25 so if one runs the mail server it must use the provider's mail server as a smart host. Some of the providers have their mail servers configured to refuse to accept mail with From: or Reply-To: addresses that aren't in their domains (haven't the spamming thieves made life wonderful :-). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The only logical reason to take guns away from responsible people is to give irresponsible people an edge in the perpetration of their crimes against us. -- The Idaho Observer, Vol. 1, No. 2 February 1997 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
