Re[2]: [cobalt-users] Email dialing up straight away Why

[David Elliott <DavidE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

On  22  March  2000 at 12:50:48 GMT -0500 (which was about 17:50 where I
live) Mat Kovach <mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote about "[cobalt-users]
Email dialing up straight away Why" and made these points:

DE> Whenever  a  connection  is  made  to  the qube2 from a client in my
DE> intranet to give it send or receive email it dials up. Why ?
DE>
DE> The email setting that I have are
DE> Control Panel| Modem| Connection Mode| Dial up on demand
DE> Control Panel| Services| Email Server| Delivery Settings| every 1 hour.
DE> Control Panel| Services| Email Server| Retrieval Settings| every 1 hour.
DE>
DE> I would have though that the mail would have been stored up and sent
DE> every hour.

MK> Because  you are setup for dial up on demand. When somebody connects
MK> and  the  machine  has  to  make  a  DNS request, or some type of IP
MK> connection that is not local to the machine, it is doing to dial up.

Thanks Mat for confirming that info. I had guessed something like that. I
still don't see why it should.

My next question is.

How do I set it so that it only dials up once an hour ?

-- 
Regards,
 David

davide@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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