From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 12 9:47:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.ibroadcast.net (ns1.ibroadcast.net [216.145.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C25115529 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:47:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from majid@ibroadcast.net) Received: from darthmaul (darthmaul.ibroadcast.net [216.145.29.142]) by ns1.ibroadcast.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA43652; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:46:12 -0800 (PST) X-Intended-For: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <014001bf5d24$d59857c0$8e1d91d8@ibroadcast.net> From: "Majid Almassari" To: "Oren Sarig" , References: <387CB938.BA57A9C6@bezeqint.net.il> Subject: Re: SMTP and POP3 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:45:36 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG check the following: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.23 It might have something useful. -- Majid Almassari, MSEE, MCP. Systems Administrator iBroadcast, Inc. Phone: (206) 223-5540 Email: majid@ibroadcast.net http://www.ibroadcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Oren Sarig To: Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 9:26 AM Subject: SMTP and POP3 > I do not have a static connection to the net, I connect when I need > something on the net. Now, I would like to use the local mail delivery > systems (sendmail, and /var/mail). In my ideal situation, I would send > mail via sendmail, and read mail with mutt or whatever. Whenever I > dialup, sendmail would send all the queued mail, and some daemon would > fetch my mail from my ISP's POP3 server, and deliver it to the users. > > 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. > > So, has anyone here have an idea how I could try something like this? > Or has maybe someone set up something similar? > > TIA, > > Oren Sarig > sarig@bezeqint.net.il > > PS > The handbook mentions I could turn to a company to provide a secondary > MX for me, but apparently this costs money, which I wouldn't want to > spend. I could just stick with netscape for mail if I must. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message