Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 01:15:29 +0000 From: Radan login <radan@uk.radan.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with sending a PR Message-ID: <19990208011529.B547@localhost> In-Reply-To: <xzpu2wx4wkv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:34:40AM %2B0100 References: <36BC8418.F90E22AA@uk.radan.com> <xzp3e4jl5ay.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <36BCFCE6.2A48575A@uk.radan.com> <19990207151411.A86778@freebie.lemis.com> <36BE1A19.E21D508D@uk.radan.com> <xzpu2wx4wkv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:34:40AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> writes:
> > Now all I've got to do is figure out how to make sendmail send my mail
> > (you'll notice from the header that I sent this message with Netscape).
> > I've looked at the manpage, the handbook, FAQ, and The Book but they
> > haven't really helped, they seem more to do with receiving mail. Is
> > there a good guide to setting up sendmail to _send_ mail using a dial-up
> > connection? Something like the mutt manual
> > (/usr/local/share/doc/mutt/manual.html)?
>
> It's trivial. Assuming sendmail is installed (make world will do this
> unless you disable it in /etc/make.conf), just hit "send" and sendmail
> does the rest.
>
> You might want to create a /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup which looks like this:
>
> MYADDR:
> add! default HISADDR
> bg sendmail -q
>
> (you probably already have the 'add! default HISADDR' there)
>
> This will force sendmail to process the mail queue when you connect to
> your ISP (so you can compose mail offline, then the next time you
> connect all the mail you've queued up will be sent)
>
Thanks, I've edited ppp.linkup. Now lets see if it works....
> You might also want to run sendmail in the background (rc.network
> starts it unless you've disabled it in rc.conf) so that it regularly
> tries to send mail that it wasn't able to deliver on the first
> attempt.
>
> > One last thing. I still haven't learned all the keystrokes in mutt yet
> > and sometimes use the wrong one, e.g. ``f'' to move to the next page (as
> > in vi). However as this means ``forward'' I get a ``To: '' prompt. How
> > do I cancel it? ESC and Ctrl-D don't work, Ctrl-C does but asks ``Exit
> > mutt?'' with ``y'' as the default answer. What is the correct key to
> > cancel a command?
>
> Dunno, I don't use mutt, I use Gnus :)
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
>
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