Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 21:14:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jochim Kuebart <joa@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail, POP and ppp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970404211405.2591O-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199704041927.VAA00212@shire.domestic>
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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Jochim Kuebart wrote: > Hi! > > When I call sendmail, I only pass -bd flags, and yet, whenever I send a > mail (on port 25), it sends it and thus connects my ppp line to my ISP.... > How do I make sendmail keep mails and send it when I type, say sendmail -q? Disable sendmail in /etc/sysconfig. > And something else: how do I make sendmail connect to my IPS's POP3 server > and get mail? It could deliver those mails locally (I have a local > network), because my ISP allows me to use different user names. Sendmail doesn't do pop3. Look into fetchmail, which is in the ports tree. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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