🚀 go-pugleaf

don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:

> [...dialup IP...]
>
> Other gotchas include the issue of what to do with mail -- the nature of
> SMTP is that it expects that a host is going to be there all the time, and
> if it isn't, it'll come back Real Soon Now.  That assumption is going to
> be false with a dialup SLIP or PPP connection, so alternative arrangements
> need to be made.  Those arrangements are probably going to cost money.

You could use POP, which appears to be receiving enthusiastic support (if
the whizzy client I'm using on a PC at work is an indication). The problem
it does cause of course is that your server then has to provide spool space
for my mail until I bother to call and grab it.

						- k
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Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
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