From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 16:38:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from soup.thpoon.com (cr103675-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com [24.114.152.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A05E37BC14 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:34:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from antipode@thpoon.com) Received: (qmail 58214 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2000 23:34:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tea.thpoon.com) (mail@192.168.1.2) by cr103675-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com with SMTP; 14 Aug 2000 23:34:00 -0000 Received: from antipode by tea.thpoon.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13OTjz-0003eP-00 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:33:59 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting around anti-apam - mail pop check References: <39985CB5.4DB7E647@www3.pacific-pages.com> <3998675C.D9CEE060@mitre.org> <399868BF.EEA39378@www3.pacific-pages.com> From: Arcady Genkin X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: thpoon.com Mail-Copies-To: never Date: 14 Aug 2000 19:33:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: David Banning's message of "Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:46:39 -0400" Message-ID: <878ztz4dug.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Banning writes: > > 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 You can run fetchmail as a daemon so that it polls the server every 10, 5, or 3 minutes no matter what. This is not very kind on the mail server, but they are asking for it by endorsing such policy. ;^) > > Is there any advantage to fetchmail over popclient? popclient doesn't even seems to be in the ports... Can't tell you much, then, other than saying that fetchmail has been around for a long time. -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message