On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:05, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 7:37 pm, Paul Downey wrote: > > Hi Derek, > > > > Thanks ever so much for your speedy reply, Your suggestions are great, > > If I understand you correctly, your suggestion / solution implies that the > > dial-up / ppp connection is running on the same machine that fetchmail is. > > Therefore the dial up( if-up.local ) script calls fetchmail when it has > > brought the modem link up.......! > > > > I am not sure if I made my self clear, my apoligies....... > > My dial-up connection is on another box ( a smoothwall / firewall ) and it > > is this box that has a modem > > attached to act as my gateway device. ( dial on demand. ) > > > > I run fetchmail on my mandrake 9.0 work station, and it times out with a > > dns error > > I think this is due to the amout of time that the smoothwall box takes to > > dial up my isp........? > > > > I have looked into my "Reply To" setting in my LookOut Express > > Once again many thanks. > > > > Paul > > > > > > Ok Well in that case you will not like my second suggestion either. Running > fetchmail as a daemon would cause your firewall to redial the modem every 3 > minutes :-( > > I assume the firewall saves the packets it has received while it is waiting > for the modem to dial, so does the 3rd solution help? (Using an explicit IP > address in fetchmail configuration) > > The other solution that comes to mind is to run fetchmail on your firewall and > save your mail on there. You could run your cron job on the firewall itself. > > derek
Could a small script like this help? --------------------------------- #!/bin/sh # To activate the connection ping -c 4 pop.myisp.com > /dev/null # Wait 30 seconds sleep 30s # fetch you mails /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -t 200 -D mydomain.co.uk -F --------------------------------- Try pinging pop.myisp.com to find out if the dial on demand connection is activated. If so, use the script in a cron job instead of calling fetchmail. HTH Adolfo
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