From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 12 9:41:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.onsea.com (p29s05a01.client.global.net.uk [195.147.133.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8572015506 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:41:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) Received: from localhost (dozprompt@localhost) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA04984; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:41:58 GMT (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) X-Authentication-Warning: merlin.onsea.com: dozprompt owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:41:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Cliff Rowley To: Oren Sarig Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMTP and POP3 In-Reply-To: <387CB938.BA57A9C6@bezeqint.net.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Now, I can't get sendmail and the fetcher daemon (If there is one) to > try every 5 minues or so, since trying to load something from the net > triggers and outgoing connection. Is there some way to achieve what I > want? I've read the mail section in Greg Lehey's book, but it only > provides a general outline of how the mail system works, and doesn't > mention a configuration like this. Neither does the handbook. If you want to prevent PPP from dialling up when a user sends mail, take a look at the PPP filter features. Namely the "set filter dial" features. man ppp for more details. Cliff Rowley - while (!asleep) { code(); } - http://www.onsea.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message