From: Keith Matthews (no email)
Date: Sat Nov 01 2003 - 13:03:03 EST
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 18:30:22 +0100
Tony Earnshaw <> wrote:
> > I am on a single computer at home (no local network) with
> > club-internet provider and ADSL connection.
>
> Your machine needs to be configured for an Internet IP number, network
>
> mask and Domain Name Server (DNS server) which your Internet Service
> Provider will have given you. He will probably also have given you the
>
> address of your pop3 server. Unless you have arranged with your
> provider for your machine to act as a mail server, with its own domain
> name, you will never receive mail from the Internet to your machine.
> Other people fetch their mail from their provider's pop3 server with a
> program called Fetchmail.
>
Tony, he's got a single user account by the look of things, he'll never
get a host name from the ISP. He must either prepend something to the
ISP domain name but ensure that canonical names (or something) are used
to never let it get seen (i.e what he's tried to do) or go and get a
domain of his own.
It's something I've had to do for clients, though I (very, very) much
wish they had been prepared to go and get a domain of their own, life is
soooo much simpler then.
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