sendmail and dialups

Josef Karthauser joe at pavilion.net
Fri Feb 11 10:14:38 GMT 2000


On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 09:01:07AM +0000, Richard Smith wrote:
> 
> Sendmail implements the SMTP protocols which is how e-mail is pushed
> around the Internet. At least one ISP can use SMTP to push your
> incomming e-mail to you over the dial-up connection, however, most ISPs
> place your incomming e-mail into one of their servers, and then lets you
> fetch it using a pulling protocol (such as POP3).
> 
> Richard.

We can do this, but it's an extra SMTPfeed service that you purchase
to your dialup.

Joe
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