iinet mail servers; was Re: [plug] Russ's fetchmail

[Bret Busby]

Nigel Duff wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:32:17AM +0800, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, russ wrote:
> > > Brian Tombleson wrote:
> > > > First question: aren't you supposed to be connecting to mail.iinet.net.au ?
> > > I've actually changed it to the IP address
> > > now (one of those nice windows settings I got :).
> > They give their users IP addresses instead of FQDNs?
> > Case closed. Be careful not to contract their contagious stupidity, Bret.
> >
> 
>  In all fairness, Iinet have always said to use "mail.m.iinet.net.au"[1],
> so that if their primary mail server falls over, you are pointed to their
> back up.

Just out of interest, they have told me to switch between their servers,
at one stage to specify muzak, again, after having been told that about
a year ago (previously mentioned last year on the list), as opposed to
using mail.m, and, the latest, was to use a specific IP address, which
we are still using, to try to overcome the mail problem that I have been
experiencing (which is still not resolved, after a few weeks).

They keep changing what they do with their mail servers, and, it's all
kind of unstable.

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Bret Busby

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