On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:37:44PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:35:53PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > > Now I am confused too. > > The original poster looked for a way to choose a `smart host' based > on the *sender's* address, were you normally choose the host based > on the receiver's address. > > > So I don't understand why you can't just send mail directly. From what > > He want's to use the spool and retry capabilities of his ISP for good > reasons. > > ... > > However, I think that exim by default will continue to send the message > > for 4 days before giving up. So long as you connect several times > > within these 4 days and flush exims que each time then there is a very > > good chance the mail will get sent. I have a script in the > > Only if the destination machine is on the net too in those few moments > that you are. Imagion that you are to send mail to my mail server > directly, then it's quit likely that, though I'm on the net for > atleast 12 hours a day, you still miss me because my daytime differs > from yours, living on the other side of the world and all that. Were > you to use your ISP's mail server, changes would go up remarkably, > just because that machine is on the net during your nighttime / my > daytime. Best would be if we both used our ISP's servers, then the > mail would get delivered instantaniously, so less resources used. > Hmm, that makes sense. I assumed that people use an email address at a mail server that is always connected. So I thought that the only problems would arise when a server was temporarily down. I didn't know that you could recieve mail _reliably_ directly at your own computers mail server if you are connected intermittently.
So what you are saying then is: that I could go to one of those dynamic DNS servers, set up an account, with my computer automatically updating the address of my IP everytime I connect, and then I could give out an email address for my machine and receive mail directly????? > ... > > I haven't experienced any problems with sending mail except on one > > occasion when my message was blocked because my ipaddress was black > > listed in the RBL of someones SMTP server - or something like that? I > > think this was because I am on a dynamic IP address and some other user > > may have previously attempted to abuse the server or send some spam? > > There is a tendency to block *all* dynamic IP addresses whether they > were used for spam or not. So this blocking probably had nothing to do > with the previous user of that IP address spamming, it might as well > have been a generic block. Hmmm, that is a good reason to use a smarthost indeed. Thanks. mdevin.