Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:15:45 -0600 From: "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Help! ppp/fetchmail/sendmail Message-ID: <00bc01bfbee5$3f753f60$63dba7d1@dnormandinfreewwweb.com>
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help......! I've got one hell of a hair-ball mess! I'm running 3.3R on a standalone box - no X I want to do the following using user ppp: 1. Have ppp sit in the bg waiting for some process to wake it up 2. Retrieve my mail from 2 ISPs -- each POP3 accts 3. Send mail to my 2 ISPs 4. For the time being, have 2. & 3. happen ONLY when *I* decide Well I've gotten ppp to work -- as well as fetchmail. Couldn't find a single message on my bloody system after fetchmail finished. Turns out that sendmail sent the whole freaking mess *back* to my 2 ISPs. On top of that, I had run fetchmail -v --keep, so when I fetched my mail with Outlook Express, I had triplicates of everything. Well the upside is that ppp is working -- sort of. It tries to connect even before I've logged on (in?). Could this be due to the start_if.tun0 script that I'm using as per a suggestion in one of the ppp documents that I've recently read? How do I get fetchmail to drop the 2 POP3 accounts to user:dnormandin on my system? Anybody have ideas on how I hosed sendmail.cf - or what I didn't do. BTW, at the end of the sendmail manpages, they suggest reading, "SENDMAIL Configuration and Settup" or something like that. No joy -- can't find the bloody thing. Any ideas where it is? As well, my `hostname` is odie.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca. Is this screwing things up with regards to fetchmail/sendmail? Thanks for any & all help. PLEASE - don't *anybody* pop off with RTFM. I might just take the next plane, look you up and shove TFM where the sun never shines --- cuz that's ALL I've been doing is reading! I'm calm... I'm OK.....and I'm kinda sorry for the final wild-eyed rant!! later....duke -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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