Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> No. They use pppd's 'demand' option, which is easily enabled via >> pppconfig. Add fetchmail with its simple graphical configurator >> and the trivially simple to configure exim and you have arranged >> for your mail to be sent and received automatically regardless of >> what MUA you use. > > Yeah, and it waits until you need to do other network activity to do > so, just spools the mail and moves on with it's day until the PPP > daemon kicks exim to send the spool and fetchmail to grab fresh > mail.
Don't know about pppd's demand, but all that stuff was configurable with diald. -- Lift me down, so I can make the Earth tremble. --Bucky Katt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]