On Friday 31 October 2003 10:42, Tom Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 06:55, Robert E.Raymond wrote: > > On Friday 31 October 2003 6:31, David A. Bandel wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:20:29 -0500 > > > "Robert E.Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > If you're wondering why a home user would want sendmail for himself, > > > > I just want it so I can send large files by email to people who don't > > > > have enough FTP upload accounts, as the Earthlink SMTP server has a > > > > 10 MB filesize limit. > > > > > > So why don't _you_ set up an FTP server they can d/l stuff from? > > > > > > 10MB+ e-mails? SMTP was never designed for that kind of nonsense. > > > Called using the right tool for the job (ftp, rsync). > > > > Is it possible to do an ftp server with dialup where the IP address > > changes every time I log on and I don't have a domain registered anywhere > > so a DNS service would be useless? > > Have you looked at dyndns.org or one of the similar services? That may > be what you need.
See, the thing about a place like that, I'd need to reg a domain, right? I'm trying to do this for free, which sendmail and ftp both are. I just need to send the guy files periodically (right now is one of those times ;)), and I suppose I could mail him a CD but it's certainly cheaper to just send him the files. -- Linux EPoX.Linux.Raymond 2.6.0-test9 #2 Wed Oct 29 16:05:56 EST 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux 11:02:11 up 1 day, 18:00, 1 user, load average: 0.37, 0.19, 0.15 If it's working, the diagnostics say it's fine. If it's not working, the diagnostics say it's fine. - A proposed addition to rules for realtime programming _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
