Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-12 Thread jchristensen
On 11 Mar, Joel Roth wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Jason Christensen wrote: >> >> Then I would be upset with my provider, as much of my mail would never be >> delivered. Most of the net will refuse to propogate mail from a non-secure >> server. (I've had this experience before) > > I don't under

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-12 Thread Joel Roth
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Jason Christensen wrote: > > Then I would be upset with my provider, as much of my mail would never be > delivered. Most of the net will refuse to propogate mail from a non-secure > server. (I've had this experience before) I don't understand what your problem is with using

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-11 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Jason Christensen wrote: > Do you know for a fact that the SMTP servers at both your ISPs are > configured to NOT relay mail. Perhaps one of the servers will work for > both connections. Then I would be upset with my provider, as much of my mail would never be delivered. Most

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-11 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, David Wright wrote: > > Is there anything to prevent you running two instances of Pine, one > pointing to each ISP's server? > If you run two instances of Pine on the same mailbox, one or both get forced into read-only mode, so you can't reply :-( Luck, Dwarf

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-10 Thread Jason Christensen
Do you know for a fact that the SMTP servers at both your ISPs are configured to NOT relay mail. Perhaps one of the servers will work for both connections. It's not necessarily a good thing as it indicates that one or both of your ISPs are not spam conscious, however it would save you a lot of tim

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-10 Thread John Hasler
Jason Christensen wrote: > The script could look at another file (/etc/resolv.conf maybe) for domain > info that was set by your connection software. I know that dhcpcd sets > the domain in my resolv.conf. I'm not sure what pppd does as it has been > a couple of years since I have used it. Pppconf

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > This is "last resort" as I don't want to have to restart pine every time > the link changes. > Switching back and forth between the two ISPs, while not difficult is a > bit obnoxious. It would be much nicer to have pine track the right server. > > I

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Jason Christensen wrote: > How handy are you with text processing scripting languages (i.e. Perl, > awk, etc.)? > > My thought is that you could create a script that edits your .pinerc file > prior to starting pine. The script could look at another file This is "last resort"

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-09 Thread Jason Christensen
How handy are you with text processing scripting languages (i.e. Perl, awk, etc.)? My thought is that you could create a script that edits your .pinerc file prior to starting pine. The script could look at another file (/etc/resolv.conf maybe) for domain info that was set by your connection softwa

Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
I just added a second ISP to my resources, and I can seem to manage everything but smtp for pine. In the pine configuration there is a slot to put the smtp server, but I can only use the server provided by the ISP that I am logged into at the time, as neither one allows relays. I can reconfigure ev