Standalone E-Mail

[brent harding]

Do they bounce mail right away, those warnings that listservers
auto-unsubscribe you because of?
My provider seems to be down enough to be kicked off of lists some times,
thanks to their majordomo bounce script. If there was intelligence in that
thing to not unsubscribe you because of a warning.
At 06:53 PM 6/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
>It slows the boot process considerably on my system.
>
>Also, I was not suggesting keeping a queu of outgoing mail for 4 or 5
>days. I was saying that our isp holds our incoming mail that long, giving
>us a chance to fix whatever it is that is keeping us off-line. This is
>sufficient to hold mail should the server go down at the beginning of a
>three or four day holliday weekend--assuming no one would go in just to
>fix mail for a company that's not open for business.
>
>
>On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Victor Tsaran 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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>				Janina Sajka, Director
>				Information Systems Research & Development
>				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
>janina at afb.net
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