Re: smail Hostnames--Simplified

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: > Allow me to give an example to be more specific (sorry). > > If my machine has the fullname > > newname.bf.org > > can I still download mail from the account [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > using smail? How? Thanks. You

Re: smail Hostnames

1998-04-19 Thread Marco Anglesio
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 09:26:32PM -0500, Art Lemasters wrote: > > Depends on your network topology, of course. However, I guess that your > > DNS mail exchange records for your own machine will look like: > > > > IN MX 1 yourownhost.com (this makes it its own default) > > IN MX

Re: smail Hostnames

1998-04-19 Thread Art Lemasters
> On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 08:48:49PM -0500, Art Lemasters wrote: > > Here's the question. How can a machine receive mail > > with smail to its own host and domain, yet continue to download > > mail from an ISP that has a different domain name? > > Depends on your network topology, of cours

Re: smail Hostnames--Simplified

1998-04-19 Thread Art Lemasters
Allow me to give an example to be more specific (sorry). If my machine has the fullname newname.bf.org can I still download mail from the account [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using smail? How? Thanks. Art > The following is an smail question. > > This mac

smail Hostnames

1998-04-19 Thread Art Lemasters
The following is an smail question. This machine will soon have its own hostname through a dynamic IP arrangement (with slightly limited hours) and will only be up about half the time. Mail will be routed to an ISP when the machine is offline. Here's the question. How can a mac