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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!brushtail.hna.com.au!ringtail.hna.com.au!mjm From: mjm@hna.com.au.MOOSE (Matt McLeod) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail SMARTHOST Date: 17 Jun 1997 05:06:16 GMT Organization: Hunter Network Association, Newcastle, Australia Lines: 16 Message-ID: <slrn5qc6s2.ab.mjm@localhost.hna.com.au> References: <339FFDED.5E1F@slt.lk> <01bc7a95$60ff6f80$6601a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dog-rooter.hna.com.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43042 On 16 Jun 1997 20:39:57 GMT, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@portsoft.com> wrote: >The whole idea of a smart host is that the machine your on is either not >continuously connected to the Internet, (behind a firewall, ppp connection, >or whatever) or is too dumb to figure out how to lookup an IP number. >FreeBSD doesen't fit in the second catagory, so it's kind of a misuse of >the smart host feature if your continuously connected to the Internet to >redirect all your outbound SMTP mail to someone else's mail server. Why >should their machine do all the work sending YOUR mail, are you too lazy to >do it yourself? ;-) Well, it could also be useful behind a firewall. E.g., you have qmail or something on the firewall box, and use that to route mail past the firewall. -- Matt McLeod, <mjm(at)hna.com.au> "Please try to understand before one of us dies".