Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:21:26 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Mom Message-ID: <20030312182126.GA3974@kevad.internal> In-Reply-To: <3E6F2EA7.8164.53EAFA7@localhost> References: <3E6F2EA7.8164.53EAFA7@localhost>
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:57:11PM -0500, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote: > My mom uses FreeBSD. More precisely, she uses Pine to send/receive > email. At present, she has a DSL connection. She's soon to change > to a dial up account. > > What I'm planning to do is provide her with a shell script which will > send/receive email for her. She'll run it to check for mail and when > she's done composing her outgoing mail. > > My initial untested idea is: > > - ppp --dial HerISP, > - wait for the connection to come up > - then flush the mail queue > - run fetchmail to grab anything waiting > - kill the connection > > Someone must have already done something similar. I had this setup some years ago. The only preliminary thing was Postfix, because I couldn't configure sendmail to work without DNS resolution, which caused unneeded callouts. The mail went to deferred queue when sent and everything else was bound to callout phase, /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup did everything. Set time with ntpdate, flushed queue and fetched new mail. Very convenient after setup, but I _do_ remember the horrible fight with sendmail and that it took an hour to set up postfix as I wanted (did it the first time ever).. -- Vallo Kallaste To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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