Where to start.

[Janina Sajka]

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.
> 
> 

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