-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 November 2002 3:55 pm, Pigeon wrote:
> (I did have a brief look at Forte Agent but it seems to lack the feature > of OE which to me is the single most important feature a mail client can > offer: the ability to automatically dial up, send any outgoing mail, > receive any incoming mail and immediately hang up. I used Forte Agent (admittedly the paid for version) on Windoze before switching to linux because it did precisely what you are asking for. More importantly, it also did the same for usenet newsgroups at the same time and with the same interface (something I am still hoping for in kmail). I did use it under wine when I first switched to linux although not with dialup - I used linux demand dialing in ppp - which just made the call whenever I tried to access the internet. The ppp-up scripts ran fetchmail which retrieved all my mail and placed it (via exim) in mailboxes. I also ran ipopd so that agent could do a call on it and retrieve the mail to store in its local file format. Timeouts on the ppp stuff brought the link down when there was no more mail to read (or I had stopped surfing the web!). I think (its been a while) I used leafnode to provide an on demand newsgroup access service - with the leafnodes newsgroup retriever also kicked off by the ppp-up scripts. I then switched to kmail - now I have a cable modem to ppp doesn't come into it, although I am now using fetchmail as a demon to retrieve e-mail from my isp every 15 minutes. To read use-net newsgroups I use mailman which gates the news into a local mailing list which I subscribe to. - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9xs5duFHxcV2FFoIRAggxAJ9djWUEhH3JhmAp4dPfQsCK06JQ4QCcCShR H8yfaJMhKbEANUHlp5FO7FQ= =Se6G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
