[Gllug] More fetchmail/sendmail questions

Adrian McMenamin Adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Mon Mar 3 19:50:34 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 19:21, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Mon 03 Mar, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> 
> > 
> > But then... if you're using demon, you don't need to bother with fetchmail.
> > Sendmail's quite capable of receiving mail send direct from demon's
> > mailserver via SMTP (which is actually demon's default. pop3 is an add on)
> > 
>    Incoming SMTP is not blocked with Demon ADSL, but it is not available
> from Demon's mailserver under the wires-only ADSL service. Their argument is
> that Demon may be able to see an ADSL modem, but that does not guarantee
> that there is a computer swiched on and running on the customer's side of
> the ADSL modem. The more expensive Demon business packages assume that there
> is likely to be a server running, so that the Demon mailserver will be able
> to send the mail immediately.
> 

In any case, I have a Demon account but they are not my dsl provider.

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