On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 09:00 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:41 PM -0600 Josh Boyer > <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Eventually. I was in a situation where I switched ISPs and didn't have > > an email address anymore. I hate hotmail, and didn't have access to > > gmail yet. So, I got a mail server running as fast as I could. _Then_ > > I learned more about it. > > Note that that's another argument for relegating *all* the MTA's to Extras > and shipping a dirt-simple SMTP pass-through that does little more than > proxy local mail requests to the ISP or company server. Not really. My ISP gives me a line and an IP address. That's it. I don't have access to any of their mail servers. So I needed an MTA that could both send and receive on it's own, and not proxy through anything. josh
