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Subject: Re: [OT] forwarding mail to local machine
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 19:35:59 CST

There is no need for an MX record in order to receive mail. None
of the porcupine.org machines has an MX record, and they can receive
mail just fine, provided they are turned on.

In order to forward mail, you have to do nothing but forward it.
Postfix will try to deliver the mail periodically.

        Wietse

Wouter Hanegraaff:
> Hi,
>
> At home I have a cable internet connection which works most of the time.
> Right now I'm running fetchmail to collect my mail from the mailserver.
> I would like to change that to just use a .forward that forwards all mail
> to my local machine.
>
> However, my local machine doesn't have an MX record, and the cable
> internet connection is a bit flakey. So it might happen that a message
> arrives at the mailserver, and the mailserver tries to send it to my
> local machine, but there is no response from my local machine.
>
> The mail server and my local machine both run postfix, and my guess is
> that the mailserver will have queue the mail until my connection is
> back, but I want to be absolutely sure.
>
> So will the mailserver queue the mail until it can connect to my local
> machine?
>
> If not, what will happen?
>
> Also, is this really a good way to have mail delivered locally or are
> there better ways to accomplish this?
>
> Wouter...
>
> --
> Wat voor een paperclip geldt, geldt in wezen ook voor een server.
> - Compaq over de nieuwste ProLiant servers
>
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