Hi, Am Fr, den 19.12.2003 schrieb Adam um 09:02: > On Thursday 18 December 2003 21:40, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > You share a network neighbourhood with _others_. Your machine start > > connections to my machine, and when my machine want's to answer your > > machine half an hour later, _your_ machine is gone, or another machine > > is answering, or..., so your computer makes trouble. And I don't let you > > make trouble to my machine. > > You don't necessarily need to connect back to the same machine to bounce > an e-mail or reply to it, as long as the return address is valid. valid - and the machine that accepts mail is always online. I think fallbacks in case of error (retry to deliver mail after 5,10,60,... minutes) should not be the "standard"-way. > Many > static networks have different hosts for incoming and outgoing mail. Many > home users operating their own outgoing MTA get their incoming mail by > POP3 from a static server. That's the way I use it. Outgoing SMTP with smarthost. "Incoming" mail via fetchmail. Mail is fetched every some minutes when I am already online, every some hours if I'm offline, every time I go online and manually by an icon in my gnome menue. Bye, Ratti -- -o) fontlinge | Font management for Linux | Schriftenverwaltung in Linux /\\ http://freshmeat.net/projects/fontlinge/ _\_V http://www.gesindel.de https://sourceforge.net/projects/fontlinge/
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