There is no pppsetup on my system. Perhaps you mean pppconfig, which I used
There is also no minicom on my system
I have been trying a number of tacks and doing a fair amount of reading to
move up the learning curve about various mail facilities
One interesting issue: I have been trying to run /etc/ppp/ppp-on as root but
I just ran across a notation in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets that lists a number of
users that "cannot use PPP at all," including guest, master, root, support,
stats. I assume this is for security reasons. Some script follows which I
assume precludes such usage. So I logged on as david and when I tried
/etc/ppp/ppp-on (which I installed under root), I got 'bash:
/etc/ppp/ppp-on: Permission denied'
What is the best way to proceed on this?
I also tried out mail, Mail, mailx, elm and 'sent' test messages. The only
problem is that the modem did not fire up and actually send them anywhere.
Do I correctly infer that a separate program is required to actually send
these messages from a mail spool?
I also noticed when I checked 'man sendmail', I got a writeup for exim
Stepping back for a minute, my larger requirement I wish to pursue is to
install a facility which will do two particular things: First, to send one
message to a large list of subscribers. msn enforces a limit of 64
subscribers to a message. I assumed this was enforced by Outlook Express,
but presumably there may be code to enforce it at the server as well. If
that is the case, reading in sendmail indicates that first the list of
addressees is sent to the server and only after the server authenticates (?)
each addressee does sendmail send the actual text. Am I likely up against
the same limit? I assume I could always write some sort of script to send a
max of 64 names from a list, then the message, and loop through such a
cycle, but this sound like doing some contortions to what you would think
ought to have a straightforward solution (perhaps using another provider)
The other half of the task is to collect names/email addresses of people
requesting subscription to a free newsletter, etc and put them in a list
that can be accessed for output when a new newsletter is sent
I began to wonder whether there isnt a packaged solution for this task which
is in widespread use, rather than everybody putting together their own kluge
(which does not appear entirely unattractive)
Would appreciate any feedback
David
----- Original Message -----
From: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Chat/ppp
> No, I just used pppconfig
>
> I'll take a look at it
>
> David
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charles E. Gelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 1:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Chat/ppp
>
>
> > Did you run 'pppsetup' before trying ppp-on?
> >
> > <snip>
> > > >I also tried /etc/ppp/ppp-on, but this generated no dialtone.
> > <snip>
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