>>>>> "peter" == peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
peter> Hi! I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet peter> connection, and will have to resort to dial-up. To prepare for peter> this, I am switching over to doing mail and news offline peter> (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use for peter> outgoing mail. I've had sendmail die on me when I'm not peter> connected to a network (not in Debian, though, haven't tried peter> sendmail in Debian), so I wonder what the best setup is for peter> outgoing mail when it is only to send mail when I connect to peter> the ISP (and directly when I do that, preferrably without peter> manual intervention). With sendmail, use default delivery mode = deferred. Of course there's a funny syntax you need to learn to put that in the config file; you didn't really expect better, did you? :-) To really send the mail when you're online do sendmail -q in a cron job or similar. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107