DNS / MX question

[matthew at schnee.com (Matthew Schnee)]

Hi,

The MX record thing would work just fine.  You would send mail just
as you do now, with sendmail from your machine thekramers.net.
Fetchmail would go to joeshmoe.com because that is where the MX
record told the mail to go.

Matthew Schnee


David Kramer wrote:
> 
> After getting renumbered again, and having AT&T admin on their support
> site that "we, um, are sorta having a problem serving DHCP and giving out
> people their IP address and stuff", I'm seriously thinking of other
> options.   DSL would mena about half the bandwidth for much more money,
> but if I felt that it would be more reliable, it might be worth it (also
> getting a statit IP would help).
> 
> I thought of another crazy idea, though.  If the world could not see my
> remarkable web page for a day or so, I won't be crying over it too much.
> It's the mail server I worry about.  Would it be possible to make a deal
> with someone who had a solid connection such that mail destined for
> *thekramers.net wold be sent to their box, and I can fetchmail it off,
> while all other protocols would go to my box for *thekramers.net?  I think
> that's the whole purpose of MX records, right?  Let's say all the DNS
> records for thekramers.net at register.com (where I bought that domain
> from) are set to 65.96.156.60, which is what AT&T gave me the last time,
> except the MX record, which is pointing to Joe Shmoe's box (joeshmoe.com)
> at 42.42.42.42.  Would that work?  How would I send mail?  WHen I use
> fetchmail to get mail into my box, who will it be to?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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