also sprach Tobias Ulbricht <up5a@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> [2002.01.28.1903 +0100]: > > postfix keeps mail in the spool for five days by default. since i also > > have a couple of machines on permanent connections, i decided to use > > TLS-based certificate relay authentication and simply relay my mail > > through a machine in philadelphia whenever and whereever i am. > > a simply queue flush everytime i am connected, and this has no need to > > be automagic ;) > > Does that mean you get sent all your mail to a machine in phil. and when > you're online, it'll send it to your laptop? no, all my mail arrives at a machine in munich, germany, actually. i use philadelphia as a backup mail receiver, and as a sending relay. since i am on a dynamic IP connection here, i can't just relay based on source IP, and i can't do without relay control, or else i'll die. so i use TLS, which is like SSL in that it provides an encrypted channel in addition to a client certificate. so my laptop has a certificate and i told the philly machine to relay for anyone who presents this certificate. now i am independent of the IP and can travel around the world without ever changing my smarthost. > What's done when you don't connect for more than 5 days? you don't know me. i'd die. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck "yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword. -- oscar wilde
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