Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 15:14:43 -0400 From: Sys Admin <abeaupre@chemcomp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: beaupran@iro.umontreal.ca Subject: Problems starting up fetchmail in ppp -auto mode Message-ID: <392AD8A2.8D5470D3@chemcomp.com>
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Hi! I'm currently setting up a mail server for the LAN here. It must fetch mail on our ISP every 15 minutes or so via POP3. The connection there is a regular connection with userland PPP. fetchmail, when started makes ppp try to bring up the link. After ppp is done connecting, fetchmail falls on a timeout and gives me: "socket error while fetching from somewhere.com" It's just as if the connect call from fetchmail gets lost in the choked packets of ppp. I tried to make a "pppctl <socket> dial" in the "preconnect" option of fetchmail, without success. One could argue that this command could be ran each time we would want mail to be delivered, but I do not necessarily have to use a cron job for this... If this was a frequent task (i.e. at shorter intervals than the ppp timeout), it wouldn't be a problem since a first fetchmail would open the link and another would fetch... But this is not the case. Any "waking up" of fetchmail will be the one bringing up the link. Thanks for any advice Antoine Beaupre Sys Admin Chemical Computing Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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