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 at afb.net > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
