John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes: > Richard Hoskins writes: >> diald. People still use that, right? > > No. They use pppd's 'demand' option, which is easily enabled via > pppconfig. Add fetchmail with its simple graphical configurator and the > trivially simple to configure exim and you have arranged for your mail to > be sent and received automatically regardless of what MUA you use. Yeah, and it waits until you need to do other network activity to do so, just spools the mail and moves on with it's day until the PPP daemon kicks exim to send the spool and fetchmail to grab fresh mail. -- .''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. debian.org aboutdebian.com
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