Hi, I'm just getting smail set up, and I'm not sure what I need to do for the last stage (getting my dial-up setup working). I have local mail setup fine, including redirecting "postmaster" mail to my normal account. My ISP (Demon Internet in the UK) passes mail to me using SMTP when I am logged on, so receiving mail seems to be no problem (I just do pon and wait, Demon passes the mail to me fairly promptly).
For outgoing mail, I have Demon's mailer set up as my smarthost. If I send a message while offline, the smail log includes a line saying there is an error, can't find post.demon.co.uk, deferring mail (OK, that's right although as it is the expected situation, I'd rather it wasn't an error...). However, when I start up the PPP connection with pon, nothing seems to trigger smail to send deferred mail. I found a command "runq" which seems to push stuff through. Is that what it's for? If so, how do I get this to happen automatically when I start the PPP link? Did I miss something in the configuration setup to get this added automatically? All of the rest of the setup was put in as I expected (I told the config that I was a dial-up Internet site, from what I recall...) As usual, if I do have to do manual tweaks, what do I need to do if I later want to use dpkg/apt to upgrade or change things (for example, god forbid, I need to switch to sendmail...) Thanks for the help, Paul.
