Date: 14 Jan 1998 08:13:08 -0600 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: "Wayne G Boyd" <wayne@jce.wintermute.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail Question Message-ID: <87en2bf8jv.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: "Wayne G Boyd"'s message of "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:24:17 %2B0000" References: <199801141012.KAA01186@jce.wintermute.co.uk>
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"Wayne G Boyd" <wayne@jce.wintermute.co.uk> writes: > My question is: "how do I get the system to dial our ISP > periodically to check for new incomming mail ?". I don't think you can do this with sendmail, as SMTP is not meant to work this way. Assuming that your mail is being spooled elsewhere (or do you just have some MX records for your domain and hope to get it from those?? I don't think that will work), then you need to pull it off the remote spool and put it into the local spool, probably through POP. There are programs to do just exactly that, including one called fetchmail. I've personally had a lot of problems with fetchmail eating my mail (despite the author's arrogant claims that this *never* happens), so be forewarned. However I do believe that it is the most maintained and most sophisticated of such programs... Anyway, fetchmail can be configured to drop the mail directly into the users mail spool, which then can then fetch locally with another pop client, or access with pine, etc. [phaedrus]/usr/ports% make search key=fetchmail Port: fetchmail-4.3.5 Path: /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail Info: batch mail retrieval/forwarding utility for pop2, pop3, apop, imap Maint: ve@sci.fi Index: mail -- Steve Farrell
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