From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 10:12:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17182 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:12:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17084 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:11:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id SAA01031 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 18:11:34 GMT Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:11:33 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 14 Jan 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > "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. You also need to get the ISP's sendmail to process your mail spool. >From memory a cron entry like */15 * * * * telnet your.isp smtp;echo ehlo your.domain;echo etrn @your.domain; sleep 5; echo quit should connect and have your ISP send all your mail. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82