On 23 Jun 2000, 11:09, Paul Bender wrote:
> They definately have some contradictions here...
>
> Notice the statement in their terms of service:
>
> "MAIL.RU keeps the right to stop supporting the addresses that are
> inactive for 5 months (receiving messages for a mail.ru address is not
> considered as an activity)."
Paul, I think what they mean is that receiving mail into your POP
mailbox does not constitute activity in their view. You have to
actually log into your pop3 server to be considered active. And in
most cases, I think we should actually download our mail and let our
e-mail clients delete the message off of their servers.
> If they aren't going to supply a SMTP server, how are you supposed to
> remain active? (grin)
You simply claim your mail. :-)
> Thanks for finding their SMTP address for us...
If you don't have the software to do this, but you have access to a
UNIX shell account, you can run the nslookup program:
cancer:/ > nslookup
Default Server: ns.hosting4u.net
Address: 209.15.2.3
Next I want to set a querytype to list all mail exchange servers:
> set querytype=MX
Then I'll enter my host/domain:
> mail.ru
Server: ns.hosting4u.net
Address: 209.15.2.3
Non-authoritative answer:
mail.ru preference = 10, mail exchanger = mx7.mail.ru
mail.ru preference = 20, mail exchanger = mx.mail.ru
mail.ru preference = 10, mail exchanger = mx.port.ru
mail.ru preference = 10, mail exchanger = mx2.mail.ru
mail.ru preference = 10, mail exchanger = mx3.mail.ru
mail.ru preference = 10, mail exchanger = mx5.mail.ru
mail.ru preference = 10, mail exchanger = mx6.mail.ru
[...rest snipped...]
The lower the preference number, the more primary the MX server. In
this case, none of the 10 preference servers work as I would expect.
But the lower 20 MX server would act as a sending server.
I hope this helps. I am by no means an expert on this and if anyone
sees anything that needs correcting, please post up.
In the meantime, for all free, remote pop services NOT offering SMTP,
it might be a good idea for us to at least try and verify that none is
available.
Alan
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