Re: Sending mail on a dialup connection

[Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz>]

On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Jor-el wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	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?

I have disabled exim's crontab, and placed `runq` in my
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/mail file. (It also invokes fetchmail.) This works fine
for me. Any mail I send while online (such as this one) goes straight
away, as exim tries to send before it queues the mail..


                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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