"Constant Brouerius van Nidek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > As there is only one serial port on the XT which is > connected to a modemsplitter, a nice little box which let > every connected computer on the modem, I would like to stay > with the ethernet card.
OK, so the XT's only serial port is dedicated to modem access, correct? > Nettamer is not a must on my > wife's XT because my wifes only connection with Nettamer is > its editor "red". Ah, that certainly opens up opportunities then. I can't find a description of red. Do you have a link to anything that shows the commands it uses? Perhaps we can find a close match for her. > That is an awful editor but it has the advantage that it > saves automatically and my wife can work with it. No lost > draft emails since she started using it. I take it any alternative editor must create a backup in the same way then, correct? > With a menu > she makes a choice of to whom she wants to write. That's the "address book" functionality, correct? > [...] Nettamer is set that it does not > receives any mail but just only sends her email away. After > it is gone he could write another or she can look if it > really went away, all with very simple menu commands. This > is as far as she is prepared to be in contact with a > computer. Constant, from what you describe, you might be able to use the network card as follows: 1. Find an appopriate packet driver for the card that you have. 2. Use a telnet application to access the Linux box via the network. 3. On the Linux box, set up an account for your wife that has access to an e-mail client (there are several) that she finds comfortable. Check out mutt, elm and pine as examples. 4. Also on the Linux box, install an editor that she's comfortable with. I don't know too much about NetTamer, but perhaps RED is similar to something else? There are easily a dozen different text editors that can be used from the e-mail clients I mentioned in 3. above. Check out joe, aee, e3 (with many "personalities" to emulate common editors), ee, ne, nano, sted, the, zed and ae (to name a few. :) 5. Set up the Linux box to dial and transfer e-mail to your ISP using an MTA such as postfix, exim or (ech) sendmail. I'm assuming you have PPP working since you mentioned that you can use Linux to access your local ISP, is that correct? 6. Set up the Linux box to poll (receive) e-mail from your ISP using fetchmail for POP3 or IMAP access for your accounts. You ideally would have separate accounts with your ISP for each of you, but that's not absolutely required. I assume you each receive separate e-mail today, correct? > Since my local telephone number of my ISP does not function > anymore, the email is sent with a long distance call to the > same ISP. But you CAN connect to that ISP locally using Linux, correct? > Nettamer is just the carrier which let her send an email to > the kids and to friends via an long distance call. I would > like to keep that possibility just to be on the safe side. You'd probably want to set up a boot menu so she could select the nettamer configuration if required, in which case it would be EXACTLY as it is today. This also takes a lot of pressure off you as you refine the configuration. > I know that would my Linux machine be out of order or not > working properly because I have played around she would > loose still more of her poor opinion about computers ;-) > (other than XT's) Heh, I know THAT feeling. I often get calls at work when "the Internet's not working." :) > The second possibility I would like to create is that she > has two choices. Try and send the email via the linux box > and the local phone connection or if that does not work for > whatever reason to have the option to send it on the > more expensive route. Hmm. OK that's a bit more tricky. It sounds like you'd want the LINUX box to try the local connection first, then use the long distance number as an alternate. I know this can be done, but I can't say I've tried it myself. It does sound like just another alternate number though. Perhaps configure things so it tries the local number some number of times, then only tries the alternate (long distance) number if those attempts fail. Are the login sequences the same using the local and long distance numbers? You could also configure it so that the system dials locally automatically, or on a schedule and only connect via the long distance option manually. > That would mean that her email after > composing gets its header and footer, receives the nettamer > mail ending (mail.$01 mail.$02 etc) and is than send on its > way by a batch file to my linux box which should post it or > if the mail was not successfully send via the linux box, > alternatively via nettamer. This approach would eliminate nettamer altogether, unless the Linux box itself was dead. The advantages I see are: 1. A host of new, possibly more flexible options open up for your wife's e-mail usage. 2. You only have to maintain a common set of tools for both of you to be able to send messages. 3. You save on those long distance calls for her e-mail usage, and you won't run into a situation where you both are trying to access the modem at the same time. IF you need to use the long-distance option, BOTH of your e-mails are sent in one batch. Possibly a consideration if there's a minimum charge increment per long distance call. You could set her Linux account up so that she is presented with a menu, or even the e-mail client immediately upon telneting to the Linux box. There may be other options, but this sounds workable to me. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
