On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 04:21, Jordan R. Thompson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:49 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up a mailserveron > 9.0? > > Although I don't remember how it started, fetchmail is running (see next > section.) I checked /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it is not there. What is the > best way to add it? I just updated all of my software from Mandrake, so I > assume it is up to date. > Best way is to edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add fetchmail -d360 (or whatever the polling interval is you desire)
That forces FETCHMAIL to run as a daemon, polling at 360 seconds as per the example. > [jordan@dot jordan]$ ps -ef | grep fetchmail > root 26259 1 0 06:57 ? 00:00:03 fetchmail -d 180 -f > /etc/fetchma > jordan 28509 28471 0 12:16 pts/7 00:00:00 grep fetchmail > [jordan@dot jordan]$ > Ok - well, that's showing that fetchmail is running as a daemon, polling at 180 seconds and FORCING > > I am a little confused on what is doing what even though I have read all of > the faqs. As I see it, there are four "mail things" that need to be run on > the Mandrake machine, but I don't know what they actually are: > > Mandrake -> ISP > Mandrake <- ISP * > > Client (windows) -> Mandrake > Client (windows) <- Mandrake * > Being that the outbound mailing is rather simple, it would appear as though you might have something mucked up in your outbound configs. Postfix or Sendmail might need to be double checked for configuration. > Those with an asterix work, the others used to work. I would love to know > what the names of each one are. > Let's try this as an example of how I have my fetchmail working (diagram style) (For inbound) ISPmailserver -> LinuxServer (fetchmail) -> mbox -- fetchmail set to remove all messages from server (For outbound using SENDMAIL) mbox -> via SENDMAIL (or postfix) -> ISPMailserver Windows clients use the IP of the LinuxServer as their SMTP server, and, of course, the IP of the LinuxServer as their POP3 (or IMAP if you have that running). > > Webmin is something I'd love to be able to use - in the three years I have > been playing with Mandrake, I have never gotten it to work. I don't > remember using fetchmailconf (I think I was following an installation > procedure on the web and edited the files by hand.) > You can start FETCHMAILCONF from a terminal or from a RUN command in your WM - it's rather straightforward. Using WebMin (assuming it's installed on your system) is easy. Just open up a browser, type in: localhost:10000 and hit enter. If you got it installed, it will pop up a login page. If you don't, well, it won't! -- Fri Nov 15 08:30:00 EST 2002 -------------------------------- | __ __ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;"""/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " |linux user:267497 -------------------------------- Someone thought The Big Red Button was a light switch.
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