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Re: offline email



on Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 02:20:16PM +0530, Deboo (deboo@debian.elitemail.org) wrote:
>    How to send offline email? 

Define your term(s) and/or what you're trying to do.

> I don't think there is any option to
>    store more than one email offline under mutt, pine or any other
>    console mail-reader. 

Mutt certainly allows for mutiple draft messages to be created.

> If there is such a mail-reader, plese let me know.
>    I mean how to set postfix/exim4 so that it accepts email and stores
>    them and as soon as a ppp connection is detected, it connects to a
>    smarthost and sends off all the email?

Check the /etc/ppp/ifup.d/ directory on your system.  Generally this
includes a script to flush your mail queue when your PPP interface is
brought up.

>    Or is there a way to configure postfix/exim to just accept and queue
>    the mail and sent all later when a ppp connection is made? How to go
>    about it?

Most MTA queues run at 30m intervals anyway (default retry interval).


Peace.

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