Re: secondary mx

["Victor Tsaran" <vtsaran nimbus ocis temple edu>]

The easiest way is to use fetchmail or you could write a small script which
would call fetchmail upon startup.
See MAN for Fetchmail, it is really easy to setup.
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "brent harding" <bharding greenbaynet com>
To: <blinux-list redhat com>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: secondary mx


> I have two other ones, but they receive mail for others, I wanted this
> alternative for one because I'm sick of getting kicked off of lists and
put
> on bounces lists when ever I try to subscribe. It's like, I subscribe to a
> list one week and I'm on the bounces list the next. So, if I subscribe
> under addresses on my linux box, after one day my exim configuration shows
> that the frequency of retries goes down to once every 8 hours or so, and I
> might not be on when that once occurs. If I use another mailbox, how do I
> make things deliver to the proper account on my linux machine when I turn
on?
> At 12:09 AM 6/25/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Doesn't your ISP give you some mailboxes by default? This way you could
> >receive them from your ISP. Usually, mail will try for until it is five
days
> >long.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "brent harding" <bharding greenbaynet com>
> >To: <blinux-list redhat com>
> >Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 8:58 AM
> >Subject: secondary mx
> >
> >
> >> Is there a place that provides secondary mx for free, so that when I'm
> >> off line, mail won't get bounced? I know yi.org will support using it,
but
> >> what to put in the secondary mx is tough. Can it be achieved through a
> >> normal pop account? If so, how do you make that site send the info
right
> >so
> >> that it goes to the proper users on my system when I come online?
> >>
> >>
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