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Re: Sending mail on a dialup connection



>>>>> Jor-el  writes:

> 	When one has a remote connection, one can use fetchmail to
> download mail in a batch. I am looking for the opposite - sending composed
> mail from a designated mail folder as soon as the dialip link is up. So
> far, none of the MUA's I looked at seem to have this capabilty. Of course,
> I maybe looking in the wrong place - maybe MTA's are what I should be
> looking at?

That's correct, the MTA would be doing this.  The exim package does
just this by default (see /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim).  I suspect that
other MTA packages do too, but I don't know for sure.

Tim Moore


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