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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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