Pigeon wrote: > ...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.
Am MUA should not do this. It should just hand the mail to the MTA. Joshua Lee writes: > However, it should be pretty easy to implement a script that would run > pon, fetch your mail, and run poff to disconnect once successful though. Not necessary. Properly configured, your MTA (e.g. exim) will automatically attempt to deliver the message to your ISP's smarthost as soon as it receives it from your MUA (e.g. mutt, gnus, etc.). If pppd is configured for demand dialing (use pppconfig) it will immediately dial up and the message will be delivered. Then waiting mail will be downloaded and handed off to the MTA by fetchmail (if installed) and pppd will shut down after a configurable period of inactivity. A rule of thumb for Linux: When you think "there ought to be a way to do this" there usually is. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
