From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 900 invoked from network); 3 Dec 1998 00:24:09 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 1998 00:24:09 -0000 Received: from mail.taconic.net (root@mail.taconic.net [205.231.144.35]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA25832 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:20:54 -0500 Received: from darkstar.taconic.net (2ndsight@ch-asc3-p23.taconic.net [205.231.28.123]) by mail.taconic.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA23277 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:18:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:20:43 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Hallenbeck <2ndsight@taconic.net> Reply-To: Charles Hallenbeck <2ndsight@taconic.net> To: Blind Linux Discussions Subject: too much speech Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi all, Any ideas about how to *reduce* the amount of speech on my system would be appreciated! (how's that for different?) I am using a Slackware distribution (3.5, kernel 2.0.34) and after some struggle have PINE, Lynx, FTP, etc., all working great. My problem is that fetchmail gets my mail from the ISP and proceeds to read it immediately, at least the first screen of each message. I have tried using the -s (silent) option, but that only suppresses a minor part of the chatter; the first screen of each message is still shown, and I would like it not to. I am logged in from another PC on a serial port, and my procedure for doing email is something like this: (1) run the PPP-GO script to log onto my server; (2) run fetchmail to retrieve my waiting mail (this is where it is "previewed"); (3) run PPP-OFF to get off my server; (4) run PINE to deal with my mail offline; I have installed "sendmail" which actually receives and distributes my incoming mail to the system mailbox for the current user ( have two user accounts doing email this way). Chuck -- Second Sight Software Now using Linux 2.0.34 and Pine 3.96.