OK, I'm a bit thick on mail servers. The ISP does offer an smtp push option,
is this what you mean by proper smtp?
Kevin.
On Friday 19 March 2004, nickm at go2.ie (Nick Murtagh) wrote:
>That definitely was not what I was suggesting! Two possible sane
>solutions are:
>> * 1 POP account at the ISP per local account, collected via fetchmail,
> or whatever
>> * Proper SMTP, perhaps with a backup MX at the ISP
Yes, of course that's the sane way to go. But my point was that very many
people have ended up with all the email for their company delivered to one
mailbox, and that sucks large hairy rocks. But it is amazingly difficult to
persaude people of how bad that is, because just like Windows, it mostly
works.
Niall
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