> This seems to imply that po.muohio.edu is a separate system that actually
> holds mail. I was under the impression that it was just a mail server that
 
po.muohio.edu.  3600    CNAME   stream.mcs.muohio.edu.
stream.mcs.muohio.edu.  3600    A       134.53.7.12
 
In other words:
po.muohio.edu = the vax cluster = miavx1
 
> By pointing Eudora to MiaVX1 (i.e., entering my account there in the POP
> account field), am I not taking advantage of POP3 services? And what
 
Same as po.muohio.edu
 
> exactly is mailfwd.muohio.edu (which I have set as my SMTP host)? I guess
 
mailfwd.muohio.edu.     3600    CNAME   rose.muohio.edu.
rose.muohio.edu.        3600    A       134.53.1.1
 
That old computer still takes care of sending all your mail when you turn
off your computer if it can't be delivered.  Kind of like handing your
mail to a postman to deliver because you have to go to bed. You stop
worrying about it, and he takes care of getting the mail there
 
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http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~greerga | stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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