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Hi,

My RH5.0 setup attaches to the net via a ppp connection with my
university, which assigns me a dynamic IP address.

I have no need to move all my email to my linux box with something
like fetchmail, but occasionally would like to be able to forward
particular emails to my linux box.  The ISP howto only implies that
this is hard or a hassle without a static IP.  Could anyone point me
to more info on how to do this - or maybe why I don't want to bother
doing this?

Incidentally, making no changes to sendmail.cf, email sent to my
linux box was returned with a "we do not relay" message.  I allowed
my school domain to relay according to the RH5.0 installation manual,
but then the mail bounced back with a message saying "address loops
back to myself" or something similar.

Thanks,
Mike

go to http://ml.org and you can get a domain name which you can
constantly change to point to your dynamic ip address.

Quote:> particular emails to my linux box.  The ISP howto only implies that
> this is hard or a hassle without a static IP.  Could anyone point me
> to more info on how to do this - or maybe why I don't want to bother
> doing this?

   Les Mikesell

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Maybe the IP address changed :-)

www.ddns.org offers a similar service, as well as some cool forwarding
options (which are mostly useful for people who aren't running linux,
and therefore don't want mail routed to their system, but still, they're
interesting).

noah

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Try http://www.ml.org

I use the "Dynamic DNS" service every time my Linux system connects to
the internet!  It is great!

Read all the FAQs and stuff ... there is a lot of information there!
Its also possible to obtain some utilities to automate it all
(updating the entry each time you dialup your ISP) BUT once you read
all the stuff it is also possible to just use 'lynx' in your ip-up
script.

Good luck!

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You probably won't be able to do this, and not because of the dynamic
IP.  At the ISP I work for the DNS record for each dynamic IP have an MX
record pointing back to the local mail server.  This prevents users from
leaving a Linux (or any other OS) machine connected constantly and
giving email addresses on it.

The only problem with having a blah.blah.dyn.ml.org address is (well
they say this anyway) that it may take 5 or 10 minutes before the server
finally updates the ip address for that host.

Also, If you ever get a strange error about MX problem (loops back to
me?) or something with a similar phraseology with sendmail, it means
either the dyn.ml.org  dns server is down or your hostname hasn't been
updated yet.

Good Luck!

Jay