Re: [SLUG] test (no reply please)

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 23:42:25 EDT


On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:45:01PM -0400, steve szmidt wrote:

> On Wednesday 24 August 2005 15:02, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> > POP server went down. Seeing if I was bumped.
>
> It's a common misconception that you need to email a list to test if
> your mail
> server is working. All you need to do is to email yourself.

That depends on how your mail server is set up. Mine's set up so that
any locally originated mail to me gets delivered locally, without going
through my internet mail server, including mail to my "internet"
address.

Paul
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