🚀 go-pugleaf

>>>>> "Ronan" == Ronan Waide <waider@waider.ie> writes:

    Ronan> John Burke <jb@museumca.org> writes:
    >> 1) XEmacs needed to be (re)started each time *after* connecting to my
    >> dialup host, or else vm would fail to recognize the connection.  And,
    >> 
    >> 2) my mail would never delivered the mail immediately, but instead
    >> required me to always' su root -c "sendmail -q"'.
    Ronan> [-]
    >> The problem was that vm-spool-files was pointing to my INBOX (instead
    >> of my system spool file as it should be).  Man-o-man is my face red...

    Ronan> Does not compute, at least not for item one.

    Ronan> XEmacs (and Emacs, and Netscape, and a bunch of other stuff) gets
    Ronan> rather attached to your IP address. If your IP address changes, as
    Ronan> per item 1, these programs tend to have a small problem figuring
    Ronan> out where to attach the local end of a TCP/IP connection. If you're
    Ronan> on a Red Hat system and inclined to mess with source, Red Hat
    Ronan> provide a notification feature (netreport) whereby your program
    Ronan> gets sent a SIGIO when the network comes up. Note, this doesn't
    Ronan> work for pppd in demand mode - it's triggered on IFUP rather than
    Ronan> IPUP.

Point taken.  I'm using SuSE 8.0, and only XEmacs (21.4) seemed to notice.
Netscape et al handled it just fine...

jb