Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:46:39 -0400 From: David Banning <David@www3.pacific-pages.com> To: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: David@SkytrackerCanada.com, bsd <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: getting around anti-apam - mail pop check Message-ID: <399868BF.EEA39378@www3.pacific-pages.com> References: <39985CB5.4DB7E647@www3.pacific-pages.com> <3998675C.D9CEE060@mitre.org>
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"Andresen,Jason R." wrote: > > David Banning wrote: > > > > my mail server has an anti-apam thing setup where > > I must first check my mail with pop before I email - this apparently > > stops > > spammers from using the server to send their mail. > > > > It is a pain for me however. Is there a way to automatically have > > mail, or mutt, or sendmail do this function of doing a pop mail check > > before trying to send? > > > > Or maybe another way around this dreadful inconvenience? > > Well, if you are using a dialup connection, you can just run fetchmail > as part of a start PPP script. My problem is that there seems to be a time limit on the period of time the mail server will allow sending after the last fetchmail > > Another trick might be to alias mutt to fetchmail &; mutt. This won't > help you if you have scripts running that invoke mail or sendmail > directly, but will probably be sufficent for home dailup use. Is there any advantage to fetchmail over popclient? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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