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
