From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 12 11:45:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B6F514DCF for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:45:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sarig@bezeqint.net.il) Received: from bezeqint.net.il ([212.25.118.102]) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.07.30.00.05.p8) with ESMTP id <0FO800NFKMV02K@mail.bezeqint.net> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:45:01 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:44:17 +0200 From: Oren Sarig Subject: Re: SMTP and POP3 To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <387CD991.3F1F34A@bezeqint.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for everyone who replied. I'll post my replies in a single message. >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. I forgot to mention I have ISDN and therefore use sPPP, not user-ppp, so I don't have the user-ppp facilities. If user-ppp is manditory, though, I could arrange ISDNoPPP somehow, though I'm content with my sPPP setup for now, so I'd rather not change it if possible. >check the following: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.23 It might have something useful. I checked it out, but what I want is to have a daemon fetch my mail with POP3, I don't have an SMTP server that delays the transfers for me. >I have this exact scenario setup at my office and it works great. Good to hear this is possible. >I am using sendmail and fetchmail to get my POP3 mail from my ISP's server. My FreeBSD server is configured as a gateway and I am using userland ppp to connect to my ISP whenever anyone attempts to access the net. Yep, that's exactly what I want. >It appears in your message that you have most of this setup already (unless I am reading it incorrectly) so I'm not quite sure where your problem is. Maybe a little more detail would help. You missed one keyword: "ideal" - this is the situation I would like to have, not what I have. Currently, I just set up Netscape to check mail, though I'd like mail delivered to my user account so I could use mutt/pine/whatever. Thanks for everyone who replied, looking forward to hearing from you all. I'm going to be away for a couple of days now, so it could take a few days for me to respond. TIA, Oren Sarig sarig@bezeqint.net.il To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message