On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I am currently in the process of evaluating a new ISP. The problem I am > > having is with the nameserver settings in /etc/resolv.conf. > > Ok. > > > Currently there are two entries in /etc/resolv.conf for my present ISP > > (Interlog). > > > > Should I just add the nameserver entries for the new ISP to this > > /etc/resolv.conf file ? Will it take longer for hostnames to be resolved > > since there are now 4 entries in the /etc/resolv.conf but only two of them > > are "valid" depending on which ISP I am connecting to/from ?? > > it shouldn't take any longer, but there is a program on Freshmeat > (http://freshmeat.net if you don't know what it is) called DNRD that does > exactly what you're looking for. > > > On a related note: I am using XEmacs+VM as my mail reader. Is there any > > emacs package to handle multiple email profiles ? > > > I need to switch between different smtp servers > > Simple: be your own SMTP server. I've been doing for a year (with my ISP, > and, now that I've moved on-campus to the university, right now) with no > ill effects. You don't necessariy need to set it up to deliver mail to > your machine, just to deliver to other machines. > > > different POP login IDs, and user/reply-to addresses and was wondering > > if either XEmacs or VM can somehow handle this for me ? > > I haven't a clue is VM can do that (I don't use VM), but the latest Pine > certainly does. Pine, however, isn't an option for some people. Something else you can do if you have shell access to the ISP account. Log in and create a .forward file that contains the email address where you want to consolidate all the email. I do that at work, in such a way that one of my email accounts consolidates the messages sent to two or three different accounts. Nitebirdz > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the > universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
