You can set fetchmail up as previously noted, and then
either run it in daemon mode, where it automatically polls
your ISP every so many seconds i.e. 'fetchmail -d 300'
tells it to check every 300 seconds, or 5 minutes.
Alternately, you can set it up to run from a cron script, I
think the advantage of this is if you want to get fancy,
you could make one script to just go ahead and poll the
ISP, and thus bring up the ISP, say maybe 2 times a day.
Another script, could check the status of your dial-out
interface every 5 minutes, and if it is 'up', go ahead and
poll for email. Both Netscape Messenger and kmail will do
interval mail checking. If you have them configured to
directly check your pop account, I'm not sure if they would
bring up your dial-up link.
As far as the cron scripts, I've seen them around, and
might be able to find them again, but I haven't done them
myself yet. I am getting to that point, though.
As far as the other diad-on-demand option, the recent
versions of pppd have a 'demand' feature that works pretty
well. The real advantage of diald is that you can set up
filters to control how long the link stays up, what time of
day it can come up at all, what types of traffic it wil
come up for, and if using an internal network, which hosts
traffic will cause it to come up, if you want. The
tradeoff? It can be a PITA to set up.
Monte
--- "Michael H. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Fetchmail with diald would work. I think there is
> another kind of
> demand dialing too.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > On 15 Jun, Tom Wang wrote:
> > > Is there an email client for LM that will
> automatically dial out to pickup
> > > email at set intervals, then logoff? I have same
> question about FTP program
> > > - one like GoZilla or Filedog (Windows applications).
> Thanks.
> > >
>
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> >
> > fetchmail does that. Although I don't think it does the
> dialout part. A
> > little script will help.
> >
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