From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 23 19:28:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.inx.de (www.inx.de [195.21.255.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8521114D5A for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 19:28:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jnickelsen@acm.org) Received: from n34-97.berlin.snafu.de ([195.21.34.97] helo=goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de) by www.inx.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10lkTM-0002OW-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 24 May 1999 04:28:13 +0200 Received: by goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de (Postfix, from userid 100) id D7E01345; Mon, 24 May 1999 04:19:13 +0200 (CEST) To: "Questions" Subject: Re: keeping ppp up -- need some help References: <000e01bea572$5ab4b680$3dc4edd0@default> From: Juergen Nickelsen Date: 24 May 1999 04:19:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Ulairi"'s message of "Sun, 23 May 1999 16:16:57 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Ulairi" 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