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[Janina Sajka]

Well, all I can say, is that any ISP worth its salt should queu mail when
your system is off line. To do otherwise is to disregard reality. No box
is always online, not even the ones that are supposed to be. To clean up
the common saying, stuff happens. The best intentions of being up 24 by 7
will go awry from time to time.

I think there's no avoiding the need to have mail queu when the assigned
delivery address is unavailable. I know that our isp for afb.net, for
example, queus for five days.

				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina at afb.net

 On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, brent harding wrote:

> Cool, never thought about that before, nothing I ever used before could
> compose offline. What I've thought of is is to deal with what happens to
> mail addressed directly to my linux box, as my isp puts an x-from and puts
> my linux box domain, which is valid when I'm online in the x-from header.
> The hostname is set this way so telnet and other things can work when I
> need them to, that's not as critical because people could try later when
> I'm on, but mail doesn't cue up and stay there until I get on to have my
> system receive it for whatever alias it may go to. The only other solution
> would be a speech friendly way to run windows under linux, for when windows
> is needed, so I could leave my system on in windows and my linux stuff
> would continue working.
> At 11:48 AM 6/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >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
> >
> >
> >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina at afb.net