From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 00:45:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA17227 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 00:45:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper119239.iafrica.com [196.7.119.239]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA17208 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 00:45:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA00740; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:33:51 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199601300833.KAA00740@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: mail over intermittant serial link To: ahill@interconnect.com.au (Anthony Hill) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:33:48 +0200 (SAT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Anthony Hill" at Jan 30, 96 03:20:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Anthony Hill wrote: > I have a rather typical account with my ISP - PPP over an intermittant link. > The account I have is geared toward the average Windows or Mac user. > > What would be a good way of getting mail to and from my system. Until now > I have telneting into my ISP's host, and reading mail there using pine, > pico or whatever. > > I have heard that it is possible to run UUCP over a PPP link - this would > probably be good. Does anyone know where I could find out about this, or > have any other suggestions ? To: You could try popclient, which is simple to set up and use and is available in the ports collection. It supports POP2 and POP3. (Use popclient 3.xx rather than 2.21, which has some problems.) From: sendmail(8) will handle this transparently, at least if you're connected at the time. Otherwise, 'sendmail -q' when you connect. -- Robert Nordier