From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 15 20:15:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-4.smartworld.net (mrs-4.smartworld.net [216.70.64.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB38837B9E3 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 20:15:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dnormandin@freewwweb.com) Received: from dnormandinfreewwweb (cust99.tnt1.dial.cal1.uunet.ca [209.167.219.99]) by mrs-4.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA13398 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 23:15:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00bc01bfbee5$3f753f60$63dba7d1@dnormandinfreewwweb.com> From: "Duke Normandin" To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Help! ppp/fetchmail/sendmail Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:15:45 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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