Re: Email setup
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On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:05:50PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
> 2) I'd recommend against doing that over a PPP line. One nice advantage
> of letting your ISP take care of delivery for you is that it will store
> and reattempt delivery in the case of temporary failure.
> Say you were sending me mail. I get my mail sent directly to a machine
> on an ADSL link. If it was down, (and I didn't have a secondary MX
> server) you would fail in your delivery. You would then have to nudge
> Exim's queue again the next time you connected to ask it to reattempt
> delivery. If you just passed it off to your ISP, it would probably try
> again every 4 hours for the next 4 days.
A script that runs when you connect takes care of prodding exim for
you, but it's still a good idea to use a smarthost if you're on dialup
to at least get it out of your queue to something with a permanent
connection.
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.''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
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