Re: smail

[steve@kostecke.net (Steve Kostecke)]

In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.971120012215.5397F-100000@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl>,
[snip]
> use fetchmail. But you can most likely do that with your isp, too. I think
> you should not let people send e-mail directly to your box if you are not
> on a permanent connection with a computer switched on 24/7. fetchmail can

Another reason to not accept incoming SMTP connections is to control UCE.
I was looking through my logs and found that I had been spammed directly
from a couple of mailhosts.  Considering that I'm on a dial-up connection
that's a pretty good trick.  So now my linux box won't accept any in-
coming SMTP connections and uses fetchmail to poll two POP3 mail boxes
(me & my SO) at my ISP.
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