"Stephen A. Witt" wrote: > > Well, I'm sure there are a lot of ways around this. What I do is to use > diald to allow on demand connections to my ISP. I then have a cron job > that runs fetchmail periodically to get the mail about 4 times a day. > Additionally I wrote a little perl script that runs when I log in (started > by kde) that will get mail if the network connection is up every 10 > minutes. diald is a nice solution as you are not controlling connection. > When fetchmail, or any other application requiring network access, is > finished, diald will end the connection. diald allows one to do other > things automatically also. I run leafnode so my machine is a USENET news > server. leafnode gets the news in the middle of the night and I can read > it from a local disk whenever I want to and not have to put up with > downloading news in real time.
And how do you post news messages? Does leafnode do this yob for you too? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Could you send your perl script please? Thanks, --papt
