Re: Gnus on dial-up Windows

[Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net>]

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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