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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