Hello Allie, On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 01:20:15 -0500 GMT (19/10/02, 13:20 +0700 GMT), Allie C Martin wrote:
DC>> Sometimes the destination is not available. > This not as common as one would think. This was a problem when I tried my own SMTP server a couple of years ago. "The 'net" might have improved in the meantime, tough. DC>> Hence, an SMTP sending engine needs persistence full-time access DC>> to all of the rest of the net. > Not necessarily full-time access. The mailserver can be set to make > a connection intermittently according to time and in the case of > MDaemon also according to the presence of outgoing mail to be > delivered. I agree with Dave here. Well, OK, you do not need to be online full-time, but a lot more than you would want if you have a pay-per-minute dial-up connection. > For many it may not be like this so the comment that you'd be making > yourself into an ISP is not a reasonable one. I was wondering about the terminology. Are you an ISP just because you run an SMTP-server for your own use, or are you an ISP only when you start providing a whole range of internet services *to third parties*? I believe it is defined somewhere (will google for "what is an ISP" whne I find the time later on tonight), rather than everybody having a philosophical opinion about it. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. "You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks or buy her a big ring and her own VCR, 'cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding." (Jim, 10) Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta6 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
