Re: POP mail questions

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

> 
> > 	3. Can the downlaoding tool also be used to uplaod mail to my Betcom
> > 	   account?
> > 
> No, but smtp will do that for you.

Note that if you use SMTP, you should use your ISP as your smarthost. This
is because if you have dynamic IP, your claimed hostname might not equal
your reverse DNS lookup and many mailhosts out on the net may refuse to
talk to you.  This is not a problem if you update your hostname every time
you connect to your ISP but not many folks go this route.

In other words, if you are using netcom for POP3 and netcom for SMTP, the
mail is likely to be no faster than it is now with your shell account.




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