Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:22:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Wayne G Boyd <wayne@jce.wintermute.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980114111949.26990C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801131508.PAA01704@jce.wintermute.co.uk>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Wayne G Boyd wrote: > My question is: "how do I get the system to dial our ISP periodically > to check for new incomming mail ?". By a undesired (by most) side effect, sendmail will take care of this for you. Every n minutes (as specified by the -q option, usually 30 minutes) sendmail will scan the queue. At that point it'll do a nameserver lookup if any messages are waiting or if your local hostname isn't in /etc/hosts. The DNS query will start up the ppp connection. Or else, have some cron task do a name lookup to wake up the connection. > (Note: Our ISP's machine detects our presence, and automatically > attempts an SMTP connection as soon as we dial up) That's pretty sneaky. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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