Standalone E-Mail

[brent harding]

I don't know what exim's default behavior is. I had a really hard time
getting majordomo to work, because I had to set a user for piped aliases to
run under, I chose mail, it seems to work good now. What happens if you set
pine to use the isp's server? Then it'll probably fail. My isp doesn't care
which way I do it, the mail goes out whether or not I use my system or
their system to send mail out, but if I use mine, the from header isn't
right because I use a dynamic dns service to map my ip to a name, and it
sends from that address. That's the whole business that I'd need something
to handle mail when I'm offline so I can use my local delivery in pine, so
I don't have to switch smtp servers in tons of locations across the system
when I switch providers.
At 06:29 PM 6/25/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Well, I am not sure what you mean when you say that Sendmail daemon slows
>down the system. It certainly doesn't in my case. My Sendmail simply tries
>the message and if the connection is not present, itwill try later. I
>wouldn't keep my mail for four days waiting to be sent!
>Vic
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 2:44 PM
>Subject: Re: Standalone E-Mail
>
>
>> 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
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