On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 07:15:13 -0700 (PDT), Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking for opinions and experience running getmail rather than > fetchmail locally. My mail directory uses mbox format and my MUA is alpine. > > Having both in- and out-going mail relayed through my ISP might be my only > option given the apparent inability of namecheap to dynamically update the > IP address for the mail host here (that's the lower section of their host > records definition page.)
My recommendation might be to find an SMTP Redirection service. I use Rollernet and was presently surprised at how responsive their support was even when I was using a free account. I currently have upgraded to a paid Personal account. During any periods where my Internet is down or out of date with Rollernet's configuration for my IP address, they queue up the mail and I can request it to be pushed immediately once it is resolved. I can also monitor what and how much mail has queued up. As for CNAMEs, the RFCs are clear that MX, SRV, and PTR records are supposed to point to A or AAAA records. It's allowed for a CNAME to point to an MX record for mail, but the MX record should contain the name of an A (IPv4) and/or AAAA (IPv6) directly. Anything else and you are operating out of scope of the standard and stuff might break. With that said, I don't recall running into any issues, but I fixed it just in case. See RFC 5321 if you want to gory details. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
