Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:32:57 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Pritchard <pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu> To: wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl Cc: taob@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Plug-n-Play Internet acccess (was Re: httpd as part of the system.) Message-ID: <199503272232.QAA08847@mpp.com> In-Reply-To: <199503270026.CAA15484@nietzsche> from "wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl" at Mar 27, 95 02:26:27 am
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> So far we need: > > - a decent mail client (pine, elm, mh?) > Regarding the mail client, how about a setup that will > enable a slip/ppp user to send mail offline and have > it send out every hour (or so). It should also be > possible to make it appear as if the message was > sent from the users' popaccount (or another account). > I have patched mh to this end, but perhaps there is > a more standard and elegant way. Sendmail can do this. You need to setup a user database (read the sendmail docs) and specify that all mail sent from your account should appear to come from "xyzzy@whatever.com" and then enable to use of the user database in your sendmail.cf file. Then just fire up 'sendmail -q' every time you make your SLIP/PPP connection and off you go. This mail message is being sent this way. > - a popclient (popclient) I'm using popclient right now. It will handle POP2/3. > - a frontend for making a slip/ppp-connection (has to be written) The startslip command will do this, but it doesn't handle dynamic addresses very well. I modified it to do that. I've been waiting to see that dynamic IP address slip faq someone said they would write before deciding if I should submit my changes (i.e. maybe there is an easier way). -- Mike Pritchard pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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