Gnus on dial-up Windows

Gnus on dial-up Windows

[Vasily Korytov]

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Hi,

Unfortunately, I will have to read mail from a dial-up Windows 2000 box.
Sometimes I will connect to the Net, get (i.e. POP3) and send (SMTP) the
mail and disconnect.

Well, let's assume, I have a program, which I can call withing emacs and
it does the connection and disconnection processes. But what to do in
between of calls to it? Would someone recommend some setup [1]?

First, is the outgoing mail. feedmail? The agent? Whatever else?

Second, the incoming mail. I don't want Gnus to try checking mail, when
offline. Is it OK, if mail-sources is set to nil, but upon the delivery
process I'll (let ...) it to the pop3 server and call
gnus-group-get-new-news? Or is there a better way?

[1] Yes, I know and prefer, whereas possible, the fetchmail and MTA
queue combo. But, I'm afraid, it's not possible there.

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Re: Gnus on dial-up Windows

[Frank Schmitt]

deskpot@myrealbox.com (Vasily Korytov) writes:

> Unfortunately, I will have to read mail from a dial-up Windows 2000 box.
> Sometimes I will connect to the Net, get (i.e. POP3) and send (SMTP) the
> mail and disconnect.

I strongly advice you to have a look at the program Hamster, it's a
local news- and mailserver for Windows. You install it, tell him from
which pop servers it should retrieve mail and from which nntp-Servers
it should retrieve which groups, then you tell Gnus to read news from
localhost, read mail via pop3 from localhost, too and send mail via
smtp to localhost.

From the point of view of Gnus you are now always connected, if you are
really connected you tell Hamster to get/send mail and news. This is
the setup I use, too BTW.

You can get Hamster (it's free, open-source software) from
http://www.tglsoft.de/ if you've got problems regarding the program,
there's the Usenet hierarchy hamster.* (People speak German in
hamster.!en but English in hamster.en.*)

MFG Frank

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Re: Gnus on dial-up Windows

[Vasily Korytov]

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On 21 Mar 2003, Frank Schmitt wrote:

> I strongly advice you to have a look at the program Hamster, it's a
> local news- and mailserver for Windows. You install it, tell him from
> which pop servers it should retrieve mail and from which nntp-Servers
> it should retrieve which groups, then you tell Gnus to read news from
> localhost, read mail via pop3 from localhost, too and send mail via
> smtp to localhost.

Thanks. =)) I'll definitely look at it.

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Re: Gnus on dial-up Windows

[Jochen Küpper]

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:42:10 +0300 Vasily Korytov wrote:

VK> [1] Yes, I know and prefer, whereas possible, the fetchmail and MTA
VK> queue combo. But, I'm afraid, it's not possible there.

http://www.cygwin.com

Fetchmail, exim, ssmtp are there for sure.

Greetings,
Jochen
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