From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net([199.45.39.156]) (2373 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:47:58 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from adsl-151-200-20-29.bellatlantic.net (adsl-151-200-20-29.bellatlantic.net [151.200.20.29]) by smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA08174 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:47:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by adsl-151-200-20-29.bellatlantic.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA10944 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:48:04 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: adsl-151-200-20-29.bellatlantic.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:48:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Janina Sajka X-Sender: janina@adsl-151-200-20-29.bellatlantic.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Standalone E-Mail Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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