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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:57:11 -0500
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   FreeBSD for Mom
Message-ID:  <3E6F2EA7.8164.53EAFA7@localhost>

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My mom uses FreeBSD.  More precisely, she uses Pine to send/receive 
email.  At present, she has a DSL connection.  She's soon to change 
to a dial up account.

What I'm planning to do is provide her with a shell script which will 
send/receive email for her.  She'll run it to check for mail and when 
she's done composing her outgoing mail.

My initial untested idea is: 

- ppp --dial HerISP,
- wait for the connection to come up
- then flush the mail queue
- run fetchmail to grab anything waiting
- kill the connection

Someone must have already done something similar.

Cheers
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/


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