Standalone E-Mail

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Victor:

Well, and it makes sense. I guess I just don't see the logic of having a
mailor like sendmail always active if it can't be doing its job. Only
slows down system performance.

Besides, it's really cool to be able to write and queu mail while
off-line. It's useful, for example, if I'm sitting in a conference and
someone says to me, "Can you send me that in email?" I just do it right
then.

				Janina


On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote:

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

janina at afb.net