On Thu, 03 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> At 09:03 AM 6/3/99 -0400, John Aldrich wrote [in part]:
>
> >> then how do send mail from your computer e.g. GIMP can mail a pic to
> >> root but not over the net
> >> --
> >Easily.... choose your favorite end-user app and go into the configuration and
> >tell it the name of your ISP's mail server. ...
>
> This works fine if you are connected to your ISP while sending mail. Do
> these apps queue up mail if the connection isn't active when you choose "send"?
>
That's a good point. Some do and some don't. Most will hold mail for some time
until they next attempt to connect to the internet. Kmail DOES hold it. I
don't know about most others... Netscape does not appear to be able to hold
mail until you want to send it.
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John Aldrich
COL Tech Support
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Chattanooga Online Internet
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