On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 01:54:30PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote:
> Scott V. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Any ideas on not using a full blown MTA for outgoing mail? It seems
> > like overkill to run sendmail (or even qmail) on a single user system
> > when all I need is a program to look like sendmail but immediately
> > send mail to my isp's smtp server.
>
> What if your ISP's mail servers are down? Then you can't send mail
> anymore, until they come back. If you run a local MTA, it can bypass
> the ISP's servers, and go directly to the remote mail server.
>
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I agree that this is nice. It looks as though nullmailer that people
mentioned above will queue, so thats taken care of. As for going
directly to the remote server, problems with that earlier today are
what got me reading this list again and figuring out how to relay my
mail through my isp. In the past I've had mail refused from my box,
which has a dynamic IP, because its name wouldn't resolve. I fixed
that by getting a .dyndns.org account. Then today a message was
refused by a computer that uses the ORBS blacklist which says that
there are too many open relays on .rr.com. Interestingly if I forward
through my isp's server which is on .rr.com it goes through. Go
figure.
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