Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:40:44 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: David@SkytrackerCanada.com Cc: bsd <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: getting around anti-apam - mail pop check Message-ID: <3998675C.D9CEE060@mitre.org> References: <39985CB5.4DB7E647@www3.pacific-pages.com>
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David Banning wrote: > > my mail server has an anti-apam thing setup where > I must first check my mail with pop before I email - this apparently > stops > spammers from using the server to send their mail. > > It is a pain for me however. Is there a way to automatically have > mail, or mutt, or sendmail do this function of doing a pop mail check > before trying to send? > > Or maybe another way around this dreadful inconvenience? Well, if you are using a dialup connection, you can just run fetchmail as part of a start PPP script. Another trick might be to alias mutt to fetchmail &; mutt. This won't help you if you have scripts running that invoke mail or sendmail directly, but will probably be sufficent for home dailup use. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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