Good morning, Greg - Let me try a couple of suggestions. First, to implement "demand dialing," you must add a line to your /etc/ppp/options.demand file. After the line that says "demand" you add a line that says "idle nnn" where nnn is how many seconds to wait before automatically disconnecting. You might try 600 for instance. Then as root you run the command "ppp -d" and you are in business. I put that command in my startup script "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" which only runs once at system startup. To use fetchmail to retrieve your mail, you need a file called ".fetchmailrc" in your home directory with permissions 600. You can do many tricky things with that configuration file, but here is a copy of mine, which is quite simple. I have replaced my actual password with number signs: poll mail.mhonline.net protocol pop3 user chuckh password ###### fetchall To simplify my own use, I have created a symbolic link called "fm" pointing to the "fetchmail" script, but that is just laziness here! As for sending mail, if you use the stock sendmail configuration without any changes, you will have to ask your mail program to do some addressing for you. What I do is operate from a user account with the same name as my email account, and my local domain has the same name as my ISP domain. You have to tell your mail program what yhour user domain name should be, and also tell it to use only your domain name, not your host name. Pine has settings for those choices. Hope this much gets hyou started. Chuck My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Gibbous (52% of Full)
