Well I tried the little script, and with a few tweeks, I managed to get it to do what I have been wanting all along...? many many thanks to all that replied to my emails to the newbie lists. another happy Linux user (newbie.)
I am slowly weening my self off using Microsoft's soft ( hope that comment's not too taboo). Cheers. Paul. 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adolfo Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MDK Mandrake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Many thank's for your reply......... > 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 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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