From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail1.greenbaynet.com([208.178.204.36]) (4781 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:44:37 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from hardb (ras16-121.greenbaynet.com [208.178.204.121]) by mail1.greenbaynet.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA24603 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:41:38 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000625174553.00826260@greenbaynet.com> X-Sender: bharding@greenbaynet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:45:53 -0500 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: brent harding Subject: Re: Standalone E-Mail In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.6.32.20000625110122.00821550@greenbaynet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" List-Id: 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@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@afb.net >> > >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Speakup mailing list >> >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > >-- > > 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 > >