[629] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comments on Routing and Allocation Policy Wanted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sanjay Dani)
Mon Oct 2 14:11:41 1995
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:57:28 -0700
From: Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>
To: forrestc@imach.com, haas@xmission.com, patrick@verity.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>From: patrick@Verity.COM (Patrick Horgan)
>> From: "Walter O. Haas" <haas@xmission.com>
>>
>> Somehow I'm under the impression that it's possible to have SMTP over a
>> PPP dialup by logging into the mail server, is that not correct?
>
>Not exactly. smtp is just a tcp protocol. You only need to do a tcp
[snip]
>One easy way to do mail is to nfs mount the directory containing
[snip]
>The next choice is POP (Post Office Protocol). With pop, your machine
[snip]
Alternatively, if you want to SMTP over email for a domain over the
dialup connection, assign the PPP client a primary MX record and a
fully connected server on the PPP server's network a secondary. The
PPP reconnect script on the client can be instrumented to flush the
outgoing queue and also send email to pseudo alias on the secondary
MX server that triggers a flush of its incoming queue for your domain.
You have to make sure you dialup at least once every three days or so.
This strategy requires the PPP client have a static IP.
Sanjay.
