From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 21 12:02:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25136 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:02:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zephyr.cybercom.net (zephyr.cybercom.net [209.21.146.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25115 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:02:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhuff@cybercom.net) Received: from shell1.cybercom.net (rhuff@shell1.cybercom.net [209.21.136.6]) by zephyr.cybercom.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA14809 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:02:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rhuff@localhost) by shell1.cybercom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09712; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:02:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:02:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Huff Message-Id: <199810211902.PAA09712@shell1.cybercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: retrieving email In-Reply-To: <362E2490.2F359377@mc.HL.siemens.DE> References: <362E2490.2F359377@mc.HL.siemens.DE> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Srinivasan Iyengar writes: > I got my ppp to work and am able to send mail using sendmail. But > the 'fetchmail' command does not seem to get recognized by > ppp. Is there something I need to do in order to retreive email > from my account at msn.com, before I use the > > !bg ...... fetchmail > > in the ppp.linkup file? Is there some daemon that needs to be > started? Welcome to the club. While I run fetchmail from somewhere else, I've pretty much conlcuded the "!bg" function is broken. I've tried running a number things using it and get at most an intermittant 20% success rate. And I'm talking simple stuff here; don't get me started on the complex scripts with device contention issues. Robert Huff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message