Re: tlug: Re: tlug-digest V1 #1090 - Pine

[<mike.fabian@example.com>]

Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com> writes:

>   Speaking of Pine, does anyone know about the following two issues: 
>
>   1) With messages that were written offline, is there a way of 
>   sending them all at once after connecting? (have tried the 
>   background and postpone functions, but one must send each 
>   message one by one after connecting, it seems). 

I don't  know Pine, because I  use Emacs to send  mail. But I guess in
this case it doesn't matter whether you use Emacs or Pine or any other
mail user agent.

I just send the mail as usual while being  offline. Then the mail sits
in the mailqueue and waits  there. A summary of  your mailqueue can be
printed with "mailq", and might look like this

mike@example.com ~$ mailq
                Mail Queue (1 request)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
WAA05179     1965 Fri Dec 11 22:19 mike
                 (host map: lookup (tlug.pht.co.jp): deferred)
                                   tlug@example.com
mike@example.com ~$ 

When the ppp connection is established, the script
/etc/ppp/ip-up.local gets called which contains

/usr/sbin/sendmail -q

which sends all messages which have accumulated in the mailqueue.

Mike

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