[plug] Ok, the next question...

[John Breen]

>Yup just run sendmail, <duck>or other MTA</duck>, on the linux box  
>if you're

<shift aim slightly lower to hit ducking target>

>on the net the mail will go when it is sent otherwise it will be 
>spooled.

Groovy.
>
>You can add sendmail -q to /etc/ppp/ip-up  then when the linux box 
>get online
>it will despool the mail.

Actually, I was going to set up diald and allow demand dialling of
the ISP, and use a cron job to fetch my mail.  If I tell sendmail to
forward all queued mail at the same time, then that _should_ work. 
Right?

>
>You may look at setting the Smart host in /etc/sendmail.cf, so that 
>the mail
>goes to your ISP's mail server.

Cool.  I suppose I'll eventually have to learn about sendmail... :)


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