25 Mar
2002
25 Mar
'02
03:16
On Sunday 24 March 2002 10:14 pm, you wrote:
If an ISP has "mail.ispxxx.com" for it's POP server, and "mail.isp.xxxx.com" for it's SMTP server, does that mean they only have ONE server for all mail, incoming and outgoing? That sounds a little dangerous to me; the cheap way out.
Use the 'dig' command on each to verify if the host resolves to the same ip address. It's kind of doubtful that an ISP would only run one mail server. More than likely the ip / host for the smtp server is a mail gateway, there could be multiple servers behind the gateway box. -- George Auch SuSE Pro 7.3 Linux ns1 2.4.18 #1 Sat Mar 2 08:38:16 EST 2002 i686 unknown