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[brent harding]

The point is that they bounce mail after just four hours, causing you to
get kicked off a list if five mails come in with in that time.
At 05:37 PM 6/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>
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