Yes you can do what you have described. User ppp has a mode that will not dial out until network services are needed by user. Give your Mom a script to run which will start fetchmail, user ppp will automatically start and call your ISP and connect, fetchmail will complete. Then have commands in script to kill fetchmail and user ppp, and start Mutt to read mail from postfix.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Langille Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 6:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: configuring dial-up for extreme novices (i.e. Mom). Hi folks, My mom has been using FreeBSD via DSL for some time. I'm about to move her to dial up. I'm going to use userland ppp and postfix. My initial untested idea is to create a script for her which will: - ppp --dial HerISP, - wait for the connection to come up - then flush the mail queue - run fetchmail to grab anything waiting - kill the connection Anyone already done this? Any suggestions? I originally asked this back in March, but now the time has come to actually do the work. The original thread is http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1441965+0+archive/2003/ fr eebsd-questions/20030316.freebsd-questions -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
