From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 9:56:54 2003 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 45E1237B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:56:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10B3743FAF for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:56:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211BC3D28 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:58:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:57:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: FreeBSD for Mom Message-ID: <3E6F2EA7.8164.53EAFA7@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message