Re: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)
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
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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