Offline Mailing

[Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

>>>>> "Gautam" == G Gautam <gautamg@xxxxxxxx> writes:
    Gautam> Hi, I would like to know how I can compose a mail offline,
    Gautam> send it and then go online to actually send it, like I can
    Gautam> do in Outlook Express. I use Pine as my client. In the

	Use netscape and use the send later option.  Or else spool the
mail and run sendmail -q (as root) as soon as you connect to the net
but be prepared to experiment and read docs.

    Gautam> smtp-server option, I added 'localhost'. The user-domain
    Gautam> entry has no value set. When I compose mail and send it to
    Gautam> my another account at Yahoo, I get no error message. But
    Gautam> after I dialup I am not able to see my message at Yahoo(

	Do a $ mailq to see all the mails that are in your que.

    Gautam> even after half hour or so ). What am I doing wrong?

Possibly not reading docs. ;)

You could try using exim instead of sendmail if it seems to
complex. IF you use debian it automatically configs it when you
install it (after it asks some questions).

prabhu
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