I have the following setup: I have a domain registered (let's call it foo.org), and part of the services provided by the registry is email forwarding - all mail to *@foo.org goes to a single maildrop on my ISP (let's call it [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I have set up my IP MASQ/dialin box (my network gateway) with fetchmail/procmail so that when I run fetchmail it picks up the mail from the ISP maildrop and splits it up appropriately into separate mailboxes depending on the actual "To:" address. From there, clients on my network can do POP/IMAP to the network gateway to get their mail. So far so good. The problem is the following - if I had an always-on connection (DSL or cable) I could simply poll the ISP every minute or so - but I have a dialup connection and don't want to do that. I could poll at a longer interval (1 hour), but that wouldn't give me very real-time mail. So what I'm looking for is a way to make the POP/IMAP request from the client PC trigger a fetchmail on the network gateway *before* the POP/IMAP request returns. So the poll of the ISP would happen on-demand. Is there any way to do this? Am I looking at the wrong solution to the problem? -- Manuel A. McLure - Unify Corp. Technical Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
