Interesting, Toby. Thanks. Also filed for that next HOWTO. On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Toby Fisher wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > > <snip> > > > The 'poll' command tells fetchmail what place to go looking for > > your mail. You can put the pop address for your isp's mail server > > here, but I recommend putting the ip address instead, because it > > saves one step. There's no reason to make Linux look up the > > address every 60 seconds, after all. > > Janina, > > I do agree in principal, however with one caviat. > Isps can have a nasty habbit of changing the ip address of their pop > server, since after all none of their users (who, of course, are all using > Winblows) should be using the ip address to call it since the install file > they ran sets it up as a name. Also, many isps, especially larger ones, > have more than 1 pop server which connects to the same disk arrays, which > are called on a round-robin or random basis, so there may be several ip > addresses related to the name pop.isp.com. This means that nobody sees > the point to tell anybody if one or more of these machines needs to be > taken down for any reason, for emergency or routine maintenance. > > Cheers. > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
