From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 18: 1:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BED637BA75 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 18:01:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@northwestern.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA07992 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:01:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (coconut-16-028036.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.36]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xmab07890; Mon, 14 Aug 00 20:01:17 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA21343 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 18:51:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 18:51:04 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: bsd Subject: Re: getting around anti-apam - mail pop check Message-ID: <20000814185104.C20315@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: bsd References: <39985CB5.4DB7E647@www3.pacific-pages.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39985CB5.4DB7E647@www3.pacific-pages.com>; from David@www3.pacific-pages.com on Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:55:17PM -0400 X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:55:17PM -0400, 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? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---end quoted text--- Why don't you just create a script: fetchmail sendmail -q -- David Kanter djkanter@northwestern.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message