On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Taren wrote: > I just went through the same exact situation with sendmail/procmail. The > problem isn't with your system, or any software you're running on it. What > is happening is that you're receiving email from either spoofed addresses > which can't be resolved by your DNS server, or from site(s) on the net which > are currently unreachable (which was my case). If it's the latter, wait > a while (maybe up to several days), until the net problem is resolved.
The problem is, when it can't get a particular e-mail, it can't get any e-mail that arrives at my ISP after that particular one. I don't know of anyone who wants to leave their e-mail sitting for several days. I much prefer just deleting that particular e-mail and moving on to the rest of my e-mail. Unfortunately, the script I created (ppp-mail) calls ppp-on, waits until ip-up creates a file (as a signal that the connection is up), does "fetchmail &", sleeps for 5 minutes then does a killall fetchmail and ppp-off doesn't do two things: 1. It has no provision for the possibility of fetchmail still being in action after 5 minutes (for example someone attaches a large file to an e-mail) 2. It has no way of handling a situation where fetchmail has stalled and needs to be restarted. Obviously, my scripting skills aren't that great. BTW, if someone else has created a script (or program or whatever) called ppp-mail, I'm sure this is a different one. I made this from scratch and just gave it whatever name came to mind. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null