From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 22:30:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA08690 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:30:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.150.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA08577 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:27:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00369; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:27:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ken Marsh cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pine freezing up with PPP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Ken Marsh wrote: > > What version of Pine is this? 3.95 doesn't background the sendmail; it > > waits for it to connect and process. If the sendmail is taking a long > > time then it'll wait. > > It's 3.91. Note that it does this sporadically. Would 3.91 background the > sendmail sometimes, but not others? 3.91 always did; it wrote the message to a temporary file then ran sendmail against it. (The full details are in the update doc) > > > Normally, Pine will display "sending message" for only a couple seconds, > > > and then display "writing FCC", followed by "message sent". > > > > > > At first I thought the PPP connection was lost, but both while Pine was > > > locked up and after killing it, I can still use netscape, ftp, and telnet > > > through the connection and the prompt is still in capitol P's. > > > > > > Anyone have an idea? for now, I'm telneting a server at the Univ. and > > > using thier pine. The PPP connection stays solid for that. > > > > Check the Setup -> Config and look at the available modes for sending > > mail. > > > > I personally liked the background mode. > > I would prefer the background mode myself, only if I'm haveing this > problem and the mail is just going into the background, then I wouldn't > know it, I'd exit pine, and my mail would be unsent - right? No, it should still be sending. I think that's why they went to the new system so you'd know if there was an SMTP-related problem. > I have really grown to love that "message sent and copied to sent-mail" > message. It gives me a sense of closure. in 3.95 is backgrounding the > sendmail an option? You still get that message. Backgrounding is in there, but it doesn't appear to be working, so on long haul sendmails you get to waiting a minute or two until sendmail gives up and queues it or the session finishes. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major