From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 14:38:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE0937B6DB for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:38:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA23968 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:38:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA10012 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:35:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZAXFV00.0SJ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:38:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3998675C.D9CEE060@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:40:44 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David@SkytrackerCanada.com Cc: bsd Subject: Re: getting around anti-apam - mail pop check References: <39985CB5.4DB7E647@www3.pacific-pages.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Banning wrote: > > my mail server has an anti-apam thing setup where > I must first check my mail with pop before I email - this apparently > stops > spammers from using the server to send their mail. > > It is a pain for me however. Is there a way to automatically have > mail, or mutt, or sendmail do this function of doing a pop mail check > before trying to send? > > Or maybe another way around this dreadful inconvenience? Well, if you are using a dialup connection, you can just run fetchmail as part of a start PPP script. Another trick might be to alias mutt to fetchmail &; mutt. This won't help you if you have scripts running that invoke mail or sendmail directly, but will probably be sufficent for home dailup use. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message