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From: "Ulairi" <ulairi@jps.net>
To: "Bart Trzynadlowski" <trzy@powernet.net>
Cc: "Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: RE: keeping ppp up -- need some help
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 16:16:57 -0700
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If I recall correctly, the internal "mail" program goes to
/var/mail/<userid> file to see if there are mail messages for you. as
would "elm", I believe. Programs like Pine handle IMAP/POP3 mailbox
stuff, as does the mailer in Netscape. 

Setting up sendmail on your local system to go get e-mail from your
ISP is certainly feasable, but not as simple as using PINE or Netscape
under X to get e-mail for you :)


| 
| 
| Hi,
| 	I have installed FreeBSD 3.1 on my system and have PPP 
| working in
| interactive mode (not automatic mode) but if I leave it idle 
| for just a
| small amount of time (a minute or 2 without any network 
| activity) I find it
| silently disconnects. I thought it was related to the timeout 
| value in the
| /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file but I removed that and it still 
| occurs. Any ideas?
| 	Also, how do I configure FBSD's "mail" program? It 
| doesn't know what the
| proper server/account info is so it doesn't work. Everytime I 
| boot though
| it says "You have mail." and it keeps showing some message 
| the system sent
| me over and over again. 
| 
| Thanks a lot in advance!
| 
| Bart Trzynadlowski

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