Sending email to dial up Linux box

Is this possible?

I am running Red Hat 9.0 and my IP is currently 194.165.164.140
(probably not any more).
At time of writing I could ssh in so that really is me.

I cannot send email to root@194.165.164.140 though and receive it.

Is there something simple to do this? Essentially I want to set up
a catchall on this IP so that any email sent to it will go into the
same account.

Eric Lewton <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Is this possible?

> I am running Red Hat 9.0 and my IP is currently 194.165.164.140
> (probably not any more).
> At time of writing I could ssh in so that really is me.

> I cannot send email to root@194.165.164.140 though and receive it.

It's beyond my why you want this. However, possible reasons the
default config (sendmail) doesn't allow to receive outside mails
or your ISP is blocking port 25, which is quite common.

Take a look at /etc/mail/sendmail.mc.

http://www.math.chalmers.se/~kurlberg/redhat7.1.html

(Hasn't changed AFAIK for RH 9)

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Eric Lewton wrote:
> Is this possible?
>
> I am running Red Hat 9.0 and my IP is currently 194.165.164.140
> (probably not any more).
> At time of writing I could ssh in so that really is me.
>
> I cannot send email to root@194.165.164.140 though and receive it.
>
> Is there something simple to do this? Essentially I want to set up
> a catchall on this IP so that any email sent to it will go into the
> same account.

Usually everytime you dial in, you're going to get a different IP
address. Usually ISPs provide email boxes for subscribers, then you set
up your Linux box to download a local copy using something like
fetchmail and procmail.

On 28 Nov 2003 18:28:27 -0800, Eric Lewton <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Is this possible?
>
> I am running Red Hat 9.0 and my IP is currently 194.165.164.140
> (probably not any more).
> At time of writing I could ssh in so that really is me.
>
> I cannot send email to root@194.165.164.140 though and receive it.

That is not a valid address. When you use IP instead of hostname (or want
to ignore MX) it has to be in brackets: root@[194.165.164.140]

It might be easier if you set up dynamic DNS. I use no-ip.com for my
dynamic adsl (pppoe) and run its update client from /etc/ppp/ip-up (which
runs whenever ppp gets an IP). Then set that name as your hostname and
assign it to a static IP in /etc/hosts so your box can find itself. If
you have no static interface, use an extra loopback IP like 127.0.0.2.

You can find other dynamic DNS services by google searching for 'dns
hosting'.

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"Eric Lewton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) om

> Is this possible?
> I am running Red Hat 9.0 and my IP is currently 194.165.164.140
> (probably not any more).
> At time of writing I could ssh in so that really is me.
> I cannot send email to root@194.165.164.140 though and receive it.
> Is there something simple to do this? Essentially I want to set up
> a catchall on this IP so that any email sent to it will go into the
> same account.

root@[194.165.164.140]

The brackets are required for an IP address in lieu of an FQDN.

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Thanks guys.

What I am actually trying to do is register lots of email addresses
on a site (each one gets free credits), so I figured that I could set
up a catch all on my box and then register 30 times or whatever.

Each of the registration validations would then be in pine and all I
would ahve to do is copy/paste.

Does this make sense to you?

"Eric Lewton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thanks guys.
> What I am actually trying to do is register lots of email addresses
> on a site (each one gets free credits), so I figured that I could set
> up a catch all on my box and then register 30 times or whatever.
> Each of the registration validations would then be in pine and all I
> would ahve to do is copy/paste.
> Does this make sense to you?

It sounds like you are trying to be dishonest about something.

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"ynotssor" <"ynotssor"> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> It sounds like you are trying to be dishonest about something.

I'm just trying to get some free smss.

Its really no big deal, I won't lie on the form or anything.