Standalone E-Mail

[Victor Tsaran]

Hi, Janina!
I just wrote the same advice to Brad on another list. What a coincidence!
Regards,
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 8:48 AM
Subject: Standalone E-Mail


> Hi, Brett:
>
> I just wanted to drop you note about how I handle mail on my notebook
> computer. Needless to say, it's off-line a lot. First, it's not my main
> machine when I'm in the office, and it's off-line a lot when I travel
> because I'm on a plane, or something. Becides, in places like Europe, it's
> far too expensive to just leave it up online from one's hotel room.
>
> So, here's what I do. I hope it helps you:
>
> 1.) I use fetchmail to get all of my incoming mail from my isp after
> establishing a ppp connection;
>
> 2.) Since I use sendmail as my mailor, I then issue the command --
>
> sendmail -q0
>
> that's send mail dash q zero
>
> to dump the messages that have been qued for transmittal.
>
> This works because sendmail is not loaded as a daemon on my system. It's
> only active when I issue the command above, or another specific sendmail
> command.
>
> This way, I can write all the messages I want in Pine without trouble,
> whether or not I'm writing on the airplane, or at my desk in my room, and
> whether or not I'm online when I write them. They're simply qued for later
> transmittal, which is accomplished by the sendmail -q0 command once I'm
> online.
>
> PS: I've also set the smtp address in my Pine configuration to my isp.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Janina Sajka, Director
> Information Systems Research & Development
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
> janina at afb.net
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup