On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:26:02AM +1100, Rodos wrote:
> My problem is that my local machine will be on a cable modem with a
> dynamic address. So what do I put as my lower cost MX records IP address?
You could consider a dynamic dns service, if your local box is online
most of the time, and especially if the IP address changes rarely.
Another way to do it would be to configure it as a virtual domain on
the colo box, delivering all mail for your domain to a single mailbox,
but insert a header with the envelope details into each message to
avoid the usual problems with multi-drop mailboxes (loss of addressee
information because that's in the envelope rather than the message
headers). Then you use fetchmail on your local box to grab the mail
from the colo box and deliver it to the individual users' mailboxes.
The downside is that sendmail delivers to only a single local recipient
at a time, so if there are multiple local recipients, you get multiple
copies with different `X-Envelope-To' headers inserted in your mailbox.
> The local machine will be connected perminatly, but as it cant run a
> server (AUP) and has a dynamic IP it makes it a little fiddly. I
True. Only the colo machine and your local machine need to know that
your local machine is the primary MX though; the rest of the world can
be told that the colo box is the primary MX. However, I'm not
advocating that you disobey your AUP ;-/
> machine. Am I making any sense?
Yes. BTDTGTTS.
> I am sure others have solved this issue.
I used virtual hosting + `X-Envelope-To' header insertion through
/etc/procmailrc. Email me if you want the gory details.
Cheers,
John
--
whois [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
