Date: 08 Feb 1999 00:34:40 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help with sending a PR Message-ID: <xzpu2wx4wkv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Mark Ovens's message of "Sun, 07 Feb 1999 22:56:25 %2B0000" References: <36BC8418.F90E22AA@uk.radan.com> <xzp3e4jl5ay.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <36BCFCE6.2A48575A@uk.radan.com> <19990207151411.A86778@freebie.lemis.com> <36BE1A19.E21D508D@uk.radan.com>
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Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> writes: > Now all I've got to do is figure out how to make sendmail send my mail > (you'll notice from the header that I sent this message with Netscape). > I've looked at the manpage, the handbook, FAQ, and The Book but they > haven't really helped, they seem more to do with receiving mail. Is > there a good guide to setting up sendmail to _send_ mail using a dial-up > connection? Something like the mutt manual > (/usr/local/share/doc/mutt/manual.html)? It's trivial. Assuming sendmail is installed (make world will do this unless you disable it in /etc/make.conf), just hit "send" and sendmail does the rest. You might want to create a /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup which looks like this: MYADDR: add! default HISADDR bg sendmail -q (you probably already have the 'add! default HISADDR' there) This will force sendmail to process the mail queue when you connect to your ISP (so you can compose mail offline, then the next time you connect all the mail you've queued up will be sent) You might also want to run sendmail in the background (rc.network starts it unless you've disabled it in rc.conf) so that it regularly tries to send mail that it wasn't able to deliver on the first attempt. > One last thing. I still haven't learned all the keystrokes in mutt yet > and sometimes use the wrong one, e.g. ``f'' to move to the next page (as > in vi). However as this means ``forward'' I get a ``To: '' prompt. How > do I cancel it? ESC and Ctrl-D don't work, Ctrl-C does but asks ``Exit > mutt?'' with ``y'' as the default answer. What is the correct key to > cancel a command? Dunno, I don't use mutt, I use Gnus :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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