Date: 24 May 1999 04:19:13 +0200 From: Juergen Nickelsen <jnickelsen@acm.org> To: "Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: keeping ppp up -- need some help Message-ID: <x7emk7ryzi.fsf@goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de> In-Reply-To: "Ulairi"'s message of "Sun, 23 May 1999 16:16:57 -0700" References: <000e01bea572$5ab4b680$3dc4edd0@default>
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"Ulairi" <ulairi@jps.net> writes: > 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 :) In most countries telephone costs are per connected time, so it can desirable to retrieve and send e-mail non-interactively. Just yesterday I set up fetchmail and postfix to do this, and fetchnews for news; glued together with some scripts I can dial up, fetch and send mail, fetch news, and set the clock with one command. (If anyone is interested in details, drop me a note.) -- Juergen Nickelsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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