On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 4:31 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I would be greatfull if some one could plz suggest a possible solution to a > fetchmail problem I am having.. > I am currently using smoothwall to connect to my ISP to send/ receive mail > / browse the web, via a dial on demand ppp modem connection. > > On my Mandrake 9.0 Workstation, I have set up a cron job to run fetchmail > several times a day to collect mail..... > The problem I am having is that when cron run's fetchmail at the designated > time, fetchmail times out with the following error.. > couldn't find canonical DNS name of pop.myisp.com > I am running bind as a caching name server and it seems to be working ok. > > The average connect times on my dial up modem connection is 30-45sec... > > I run fetchmail with the following syntax /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -t 200 -D > mydomain.co.uk -F > > > Is there a way I can get fetchmail to wait for about 30 seconds before it > tries to fetchmail.....? > I thought that the -t switch would be the answer, but this doesn't seem to > help..... > > Any suggestions welcome......? > > Regards > Paul Downey > > Linux Newbie
Instead of using a cron job you could put your fetchmail command in /etc/ppp/if-up.local It will be executed after the dial up is established. Alternatively run fetchmail as a daemon. Install the fetchmail-daemon RPM and it will run continuously using /etc/fetchmailrc as its config file. It does not matter if you are on line or not. By default it will poll for mail every 180 secs as defined in /etc/init.d/fetchmail Also to get bind out of the equation you could reference your ISP's mail server by IP address instead of canonical name HTH derek BTW: You do not need that "Reply To" setting in your LookOut Express configuration. Deleting it will make lots of people happy. -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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