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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!unixg.ubc.ca!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!uniserve!n2van.istar!van.istar!west.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!n3ott.istar!news.comnet.ca!tomqnx.tomqnx.com!tom From: tom@tomqnx.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Using Pine with PPP Date: 20 Jul 1996 23:23:46 GMT Organization: Comnet Communications Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4srpq2$74@executor.comnet.ca> References: <Dup3x2.LFH@isgtec.com> <4spjqf$258@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.206.213.106 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Brian Somers (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote: : Hubert Chu (hubert@isgtec.com) wrote: : : I have a FreeBSD 2.1 system runing PPP with dial-on-request enabled. : : Everytime I compose and send a mail message within Pine, the mail : : will be sent right away. : : I've tried using other mail tools, e.g. "mail", the newly created : : mail stays on the mail queue without triggering a dail-out. : : Is there a way to suppress mail delivery in Pine until later when : : I do it in a batch by "sendmail -q -v"? : I tried to achieve this for a long time.... I ended up figuring out that : I didn't really want "dial on demand". I now only dial when I get an : out packet going to my news server. I've also hooked a script into ppp : so that it runs it when the connection is made. This script of course : contains a "sendmail -q". : -- : Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> : Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... I kept dial on demand and went to elm for mail and a couple of different newsreaders for news. -- tom@tomqnx.com Tom Torrance 27 Dayton Cr., Nepean Ont., Canada K2H 7N8 My opinions are personal, and not those of my employer.