hi
Ship's Log, Lt. [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stardate 221298.0927:
> Hi,
>
> Actually, to get mail from my ISP (POP3 server), I do
>
> pon
> popclient -v mail.infonie.fr -u frleg
> poff
>
> I would like my system to get automatically my mails :
> every hours if I am not connected (so it will have to connect en
> disconnect by itself)
> every half an hour (for example) if I am connected (without disconnecting
> me)
>
> I read several HOWTOs and didn't find good explanation. What is the solution :
> Using scripts ? (Have you some ?)
> Using things like diald ?
I wrote 2 zsh scripts for myself which do something like this.
they may not be a pretty good style, so if someone want to send me
enhancements feel free to do so ;-)
Greetings
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A Promise Keeper is committed to practicing spiritual, moral, ethical,
and sexual purity.
#!/usr/bin/zsh
#keeps pattern as filename if no match
setopt nonomatch
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin
if ! test -f ~/.online/*
then
until (route|grep rusmax1 >/dev/null) # I wait for the def. route
do
ipon # a bin of mine which is sim. to pon just isdn
sleep 5
if (route|grep 129.69 >/dev/null) # sometimes something goes wrong
then
ping -c 1 129.69.18.28
#sleep 3
#route add default ippp0
else
#sleep 3
fi
done
fi
#that is the importent part ...
#I count the times the script was called
#offline will go only offline if noone want to be online anymore
touch ~/.online/`expr 0\`ls ~/.online|tail -1 \` + 1`
#!/usr/bin/zsh
setopt nonomatch
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin
if test -f ~/.online/*
then
sendmail -q
#send all remaining EMails
count=30
#Wait until mailq is empty, up to a max of 5 min.
until ((mailq|grep 'Mail queue is empty' >/dev/null)||test $count -eq 0)
#while (mailq|egrep -v '^$'>/dev/null)
do
sleep 10
count=`expr $count - 1`
done
#one person wat's to go offline
rm ~/.online/`ls ~/.online|tail -1`
#in case that was the last one remaining
if ! test -f ~/.online/*
then
#go offline (yupp, again my bin for isdn)
ipoff
fi
fi
