On 4 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I would like to have email that I send when offline be queued for later > deliver when I connect. How can I do this? > > When mail is sent when you're offline, the mail daemon queues it, > because it can't connect to the remote host. It retries every so > often for a few days, then gives up. The easiest thing to do is to > just let the daemon queue it, and then, when you're online, run the > `runq' command to have it attempt delivery immediately. > > Of course there are other solutions but this is the simplest. If you > use diald it won't work of course. Maybe the diald filters can be > configured to not bring the connection up for packets sent to the smtp > port? > Sorry, but it doesn't. I use Pine, with the smtp host as localhost. Pine comes back as saying it can't be delivered. I believe this is because smail is trying to resolve with dns, can't, and gives up. Any other suggestions? Adam. ps: I had been using windows for email, but just recently converted to fetchmail/procmail and unix/pine. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .