What on earth is SMTP forwarding? Oh the forward feature in gmail? That is not SMTP. Something else, then you are not running any vestige of a mail server. ;)
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Jacob G Podipara <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Not much fun in running such a mail server. >> Hey; > > Hi > >> If I get you correctly, unless one has a Static IP one cannot use a mail >> server to redirect mail to >> users on a Linux Desktop with multiple users. I had to create a fetchmail >> config, run it for each >> user and route all mail through a commom Gmail ID with SMTP fwding. As it is >> a family desktop I can >> assert my will, but it's unfair. > > Then you are using the smart host feature in which DHCP is not a > problem. It will work. > > You are a full fledged mail server only when you directly talk to the > mail server in question which > is obtained by the @ part of the mail ID, after a DNS lookup of MX > pointer followed by A pointer. > >> How do I subvert this. I would not like to pay for static IP, usage is too >> less. I tried "dyn.dns" >> unfortunately did not work out. I am using fetchmail+mutt+exim. Hope I am >> along the right lines! >> Podi >> (prematurely old at 42) >> (jus kiddin) > > You are too old to have any value in India, ;) > > Actually all the hackers I have seen are quite old. My US partner is > 63 years old. He still > works, learns and does everything except coding. > > Okay now, you don't have any problem; you are just front ending for > gmail. You do not > need a static IP. > > Neither do you need dyn dns. > > -Girish > > > -- > Gayatri Hitech > http://gayatri-hitech.com -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
