From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 23:02:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05469 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 23:02:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05453 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 23:01:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id HAA19405 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 07:57:14 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA03168; 15 Jan 98 02:15:32 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 14 Jan 98 14:24:29 +0100 Subject: sendmail Question Message-ID: References: <199801141012.KAA01186@jce.wintermute.co.uk> Organization: Fidonet: UNIX-sysadm søger job To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 14 Jan 98 11:24:17 "Wayne G Boyd" wrote regarding sendmail Question "G> Sendmail will Tx and Rx SMTP mail with our ISP without a "G> problem, as long as the PPP link is up, and it will dial out for "G> outgoing mail. You might want to disable the posting of a single letter to initial a dialout, by marking the internet as "expensive" in your sendmail.cf / m4. Then only explicitly send when you also want to poll for new mail. But that naturally depends on the price of a call. "G> My question is: "how do I get the system to dial our ISP "G> periodically to check for new incomming mail ?". A ping -n10 isp.name.domain in cron executed at your preferred interval will open the link. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk