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