Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 16:47:15 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Koum <jkb@best.com> To: Wayne G Boyd <wayne@jce.wintermute.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117164520.15824A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <199801131039.KAA00997@jce.wintermute.co.uk>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Wayne G Boyd wrote:
>First of all I would like to thank you for the response I had to the
>last question I sent in, it pointed me in a direction which solved my
>previous problem.
>
>I now have another question. My system config is as follows:-
>
>PC running FreeBSD, with single ethernet card, and single modem.
>The ethernet card is connected to our local IPX LAN.
>Dial-On-Demand PPP connection to our ISP is configured and working.
>Squid proxy server is configured and working.
>sendmail & a POP3 server are configured and working, for mail pickup
>over the LAN from Win95 mail clients.
>
>Sendmail will Tx and Rx SMTP mail with our ISP without a problem, as
>long as the PPP link is up, and it will dial out for outgoing mail.
>
>My question is: "how do I get the system to dial our ISP periodically
>to check for new incomming mail ?".
Use crontab (man crontab) and fetchmail. You can install fetchmail
from packages.
DESCRIPTION
fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility; it
fetches mail from remote mailservers and forwards it to
your local (client) machine's delivery system. You can
then handle the retrieved mail using normal mail user
agents such as elm(1) or Mail(1). The fetchmail utility
can be run in a daemon mode to repeatedly poll one or more
systems at a specified interval.
-- Yan
>
>(Note: Our ISP's machine detects our presence, and automatically
>attempts an SMTP connection as soon as we dial up)
>
>
>--
>Wayne G Boyd, Digital Systems Manager
>JCE (Aberdeen) Ltd
>Tel: +44 (0)1224 772030
>Fax: +44 (0)1224 772002
>
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