Mikkel L. Ellertson: >> Local POP/SMTP server on a dialup connection. This requires longer >> spooling of outgoing messages, and warning times. Incoming mail may >> require the server to accept incoming network connections, or a >> program like fetchmail may grab Internet mail. Les Mikesell: > Connectivity doesn't matter to sendmail It did when I was on dialup, there's a number of issues: If you allow your system to dial on demand, you could be doing so far more than you wanted. If your system spends more time off-line than on-line, it may be off-line too long for messages to stay in the queue. They get bounced back to you, locally, as undeliverable. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
