Re: Naming convention invalid (local) domain
Thanks, Carel and Nate
* nate <debian-user@aphroland.org> [24-09-2002 03:26]:
> > I could ofcourse also make up a domain name. For instance robian.inv or
> > something like that.
> if you don't own a domain I would make one up, and would try to
> make one that is not taken, but something that is unusual enough that
> it probably won't be taken. then you can configure your MTA to masq your
> email to change all messages to show your real email address.
I think that would be the address rewriting rule that by default
looks in /etc/email-addresses. I never liked it very much to have
user stuff like that in /etc, but at the time it was the only way I
knew how to have the "smarthost" at my isp accept my relay requests.
At the time, I didn't know that the MID from my local exim would
show up in the headers which potentially makes some people think
less of me (i.e. borked-message-headers highlighting in mutt)
I think I need a valid domainname for it to work.
On a slightly related noted. How expensive is a pop-request (i.e.
fetchmail) for the pop3 server. Since my isp is currently having
problems with their mail systems, I was wondering, if they would be
annoyed (perhaps, rightly so) if wannabe hackers like me, poll
their pop3-server once every two minutes or so.
Eventually I want to be independent of their mail infrastructure, but
I don't feel opening my MTA to the outside world is a good idea for
now.
Bob
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