From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 27 16:47:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA15563 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:47:58 -0800 Received: from mpp.com (dialup-3-210.gw.umn.edu [134.84.101.210]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA15557 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:47:55 -0800 Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA08847; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:32:58 -0600 From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199503272232.QAA08847@mpp.com> Subject: Re: Plug-n-Play Internet acccess (was Re: httpd as part of the system.) To: wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:32:57 -0600 (CST) Cc: taob@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503270026.CAA15484@nietzsche> from "wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl" at Mar 27, 95 02:26:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1391 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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"