Re: managing multiple ISPs
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> > I am currently in the process of evaluating a new ISP. The problem I am
> > having is with the nameserver settings in /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> Ok.
>
> > Currently there are two entries in /etc/resolv.conf for my present ISP
> > (Interlog).
> >
> > Should I just add the nameserver entries for the new ISP to this
> > /etc/resolv.conf file ? Will it take longer for hostnames to be resolved
> > since there are now 4 entries in the /etc/resolv.conf but only two of them
> > are "valid" depending on which ISP I am connecting to/from ??
>
> it shouldn't take any longer, but there is a program on Freshmeat
> (http://freshmeat.net if you don't know what it is) called DNRD that does
> exactly what you're looking for.
>
> > On a related note: I am using XEmacs+VM as my mail reader. Is there any
> > emacs package to handle multiple email profiles ?
>
> > I need to switch between different smtp servers
>
> Simple: be your own SMTP server. I've been doing for a year (with my ISP,
> and, now that I've moved on-campus to the university, right now) with no
> ill effects. You don't necessariy need to set it up to deliver mail to
> your machine, just to deliver to other machines.
>
> > different POP login IDs, and user/reply-to addresses and was wondering
> > if either XEmacs or VM can somehow handle this for me ?
>
> I haven't a clue is VM can do that (I don't use VM), but the latest Pine
> certainly does. Pine, however, isn't an option for some people.
Something else you can do if you have shell access to the ISP account.
Log in and create a .forward file that contains the email address where
you want to consolidate all the email. I do that at work, in such a way
that one of my email accounts consolidates the messages sent to two or
three different accounts.
Nitebirdz
>
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