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Re: dialup mail with gnus



This one time, at band camp, Michael Wördehoff said:

> Hello List,
> 
> I followed the threading about mail-reader some time ago.
> I was interested to console-mail in addition to kmail, which I may possibly 
> ditch in future.
> I relay on a dialup-ppp.
> As a consequence of what I've read, I now use wvdial -> fetchmail -> gnus for 
> reading.
> Now i wonder how to send dialup-mails properly. Exim ( actually running ) 
> seems not to be appropriate, according to it's philosophy. I would like to 
> have something like 'dialup and send remote-mails in ( remote-? - ) que'  
> on a keystroke from inside gnus.
> Which MTA would be useful ? Would it be easier to invoke a little script 
> instead ?
> Please cc to me directly, since I'm not on the list at moment...
> 
> TIA,
> -- 
> Michael.

Exim does this just fine.  If you look in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d (IIRC - don't
have a dial-up box handy) you'll see that it launches an exim run to
email everything in it's queue.

Steve

-- 
The course of true anything never does run smooth.
		-- Samuel Butler

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