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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Using Pine with PPP Date: 20 Jul 1996 04:29:19 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4spjqf$258@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <Dup3x2.LFH@isgtec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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....