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#! rnews 2038 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!yama.mcc.ac.uk!zippy.dct.ac.uk!str-ccsun!usenet Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Offline email and news with FreeBSD Message-ID: <1274.6792T81T117@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Clark) Date: 06 Aug 96 01:21:02 +0500 References: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960728092152.24662B-100000@blaze.trentu.ca> Organization: University of Strathclyde Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-04.cc.strath.ac.uk X-Newsreader: THOR 2.3 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED* Lines: 31 Can anyone recommend offline news and email software for FreeBSD for a dialup Internet connection? Here's the situation so far; I have my machine at work (vulture) running popd (popper) There is a news server available elsewhere Now, I have been able to _retrieve_ email from the POP server, vulture, by compiling and running the "popclient" program, which then dumps the mail in standard mail box format on the remote machine. So far so good. Ideally then I would like to disconnect, answer the email, reconnect and punt the replies back to the POP server. However, "popclient" does not seem to allow this. I have achieved limited success by mucking about with sendmail; I recall reading in the manual about a flag that stops the mail queue being flushed until you command it to, but to be honest I have more important things to do with my life than spend it attempting to work out the dark inner side of sendmail. So, in a nutshell, how on earth do I do this? Is there any software? Does anyone have a sendmail.cf I could use? Does anyone know of an offline newsreader that does not entail setting up my wee home machine as an entire Internet news server? Thanks in advance, Neil Clark Transparent Telepresence Group http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk/~nbc