From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 14:48:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www3.pacific-pages.com (www3.pacific-pages.com [192.41.48.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD6037B601 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:48:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from David@www3.pacific-pages.com) Received: from www3.pacific-pages.com ([216.191.61.75]) by www3.pacific-pages.com (8.8.5) id PAA28925; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:48:19 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <399868BF.EEA39378@www3.pacific-pages.com> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:46:39 -0400 From: David Banning Reply-To: David@SkytrackerCanada.com Organization: Sky-Tracker of Canada Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andresen,Jason R." Cc: David@SkytrackerCanada.com, bsd Subject: Re: getting around anti-apam - mail pop check References: <39985CB5.4DB7E647@www3.pacific-pages.com> <3998675C.D9CEE060@mitre.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Andresen,Jason R." wrote: > > 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. My problem is that there seems to be a time limit on the period of time the mail server will allow sending after the last fetchmail > > 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. Is there any advantage to fetchmail over popclient? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message