[plug] LANS and email and stuff

[Jeremy Malcolm]

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> Since I take it from your
> email address you have a static IP, get your ISP to set their MX
record
> with first preference to the IP of your machine (for whenever it's
> online) and the second preference to their mail server.  Then set up
> fetchmail to use ETRN to initiate delivery of email stored on your
ISPs
> server when you come online.  If your ISP is using BSMTP then this
will
> work even better.

How does it work at the ISP's end?  I've found the answer as it
applies to sendmail at
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue36/tag/80.html, but I'm using smail. 
I posted a message to comp.mail.smail some time ago but the guy who
responded suggested there is *no* special setup required for smail to
act as a secondary mail exchanger, except to stick its IP address in
as an MX record.  I hope he is wrong, otherwise Joe Bozo can specify
my mail server as a secondary MX and I'll cache mail for him.  I guess
would it be sufficient if I added the domain I wish to MX for to
"more_hostnames" in the smail config file?

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