From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from orion.sas.upenn.edu(ORION.SAS.UPENN.EDU[165.123.26.31]) (2738 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 13:00:31 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from wang (DIALIN0658.UPENN.EDU [128.91.18.146]) by orion.sas.upenn.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1/SAS.05) with SMTP id e5PH0Ws20031 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 13:00:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <002201bfdedf$f898cce0$92125b80@wang> From: "Victor Tsaran" To: References: Subject: Re: Standalone E-Mail Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 13:00:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4029.2901 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 List-Id: Hi, Janina! I just wrote the same advice to Brad on another list. What a coincidence! Regards, Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" To: 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@afb.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup