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From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc: Jason Parsons <jparsons@dreamscape.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: me again.  mail question
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> > I have managed to get my local copy of pine to send outgoing messages to a
> > queue, which then go to the ISP when I hook up, but even that works only
> > sporadically, and like POP, sendmail is also poorly documented (Unless you
> > buy a book, which is certain to be over 2 inches thick.)
>
> Now why are the messages going to the ISP?  The only issue here is whether
> you use sendmail on your own machine (when connected by ppp or slip) as the
> mail transport agent or whether you use the ISP.  If you use sendmail it
> probably bypasses the ISP altogether except as a hop.  If you use sendmail
> on your own machine it must be running.

The SMTP mailhost belongs to the ISP. It's not the same machine as the
ISP's dialup facility or its internet gateway, but I consider it the ISP
anyway. Sorry for the confusion.

I've tried using sendmail on my own machine with about 60% success. Some
messages just never make it to the mailhosts, and they back up the
mailqueue. Using Pine locally to transport mail to the mailhost is also
only partially successful. Now I'm telneting an ISP server and using pine
remotely. This is the only guarantee I can actually send this message.

Ken