Chuck and all, Thanks for the info. I'm using mutt as my mail client. However I can't find what goes in the .muttrc file. Everything is as you described below-- my domain is that of my ISP, and my user name on my system is the same as at my ISP. Greg > ----- Original Message ----- >From: Charles Hallenbeck <chuckh at mhonline.net >To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca >Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 06:51:47 -0400 (EDT) >Subject: Re: net access under Linux progress and questions >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) >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
