broadband connectivity advice

[Tracy Son]

Hello.
I hope to get a cable modem through Charter cable in a month and I am
intrested in getting documentation now for the fetch mail program.
You mentioned some type of smart host program.
Whair can I get this along with the documentation for it?
I will have several outside pop mail servers and so this means I will have
several user accounts set up on my linux system so can multiple versions of
fetch mail be used for getting mail for each user account?
I will be using the redhat 9 installation and I will be waiting a while
before I install federa.
tracy Son.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: broadband connectivity advice


> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:26:39AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > tell you is wrong to linuxese. I've heard some reports from linux users
on
> > cable of some ports being intentionally blocked to prevent activity, but
> > this hasn't so far happened to me.
>
> They do block several ports at Cox High Speed Internet here but we can
> work around that.  I use fetchmail to pull down all my mail destined
> to my registered domain by having my mail hosted on an outside server
> and I use Exim's smart_host option to send all my mail through Cox
> Cable's smtp server as they deny all other direct SMTP contacts.  They
> block the more obvious ports inbound such as port 25 mail, 80 HTTP, 21
> FTP, etc. but they don't block port 22 ssh so I can still log into my
> machines when I want to.
>
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