From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 15:55:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D0937B401 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7173443F3F for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:55:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A78C93D28 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:55:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:55:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3F12FCAF.20829.2B0D76E8@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: configuring dial-up for extreme novices (i.e. Mom). X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:55:32 -0000 Hi folks, My mom has been using FreeBSD via DSL for some time. I'm about to move her to dial up. I'm going to use userland ppp and postfix. My initial untested idea is to create a script for her which will: - ppp --dial HerISP, - wait for the connection to come up - then flush the mail queue - run fetchmail to grab anything waiting - kill the connection Anyone already done this? Any suggestions? I originally asked this back in March, but now the time has come to actually do the work. The original thread is http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1441965+0+archive/2003/fr eebsd-questions/20030316.freebsd-questions -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/