Stephen A. Witt wrote:
Well, I'm sure there are a lot of ways around this. What I do is to use
diald to allow on demand connections to my ISP. I then have a cron job
that runs fetchmail periodically to get the mail about 4 times a day.
Additionally I wrote a little perl script that runs when
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Subject: Re: Background mail transfers
Stephen A. Witt wrote:
Well, I'm sure there are a lot of ways around this. What I do is to use
diald to allow on demand connections to my ISP. I then have a cron job
that runs fetchmail periodically to get
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Alan wrote:
A A quick question on the verge of this discussion ... I am about to setup
A fetchmail to collect my email from my ISP via diald (as described in this
A thread) but would also like to redistribute the mail once collected to
A individual user accounts based
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Barry Samuels wrote:
Can anyone suggest a way to prevent this apart from running Fetchmail
manually?
you can use `fetchmail -d time' to start it and `fetchmail --quit' to
stop it. I think fechmail will know what to do if it's fetching and e-mail
when you stop it.
[]s,
Alan said:
A quick question on the verge of this discussion ... I am about to
setup fetchmail to collect my email from my ISP via diald (as described in
this thread) but would also like to redistribute the mail once collected
to individual user accounts based on the alias (contents of the
Pap Tibor said:
And how do you post news messages? Does leafnode do this yob for you too?
Yes.
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If the messages are going to different accounts on the mail server, you
can
have multiple entries in your .fetchmailrc of the form user foo there is
bar
here. If they're all going to the same account, you'll need to use
procmail
or exim (or whatever) filters to divide them up.
Why don't You
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Simon Michael wrote:
hmm.. surely fetchmail normally would take this in stride, re-fetching
the message next time ?
Whoops! Embarrassing admission time.
Your remark above triggered the thought processes and I've work out what I
think happened.
I am not yet using the
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 06:55:59AM +0100, Pap Tibor wrote:
And how do you post news messages? Does leafnode do this yob for you too?
Yes, Leafnode will post messages. Basically, what it does is to look
like a standard news server to local readers and look like a regular
news client to the
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 08:01:20PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
So I suspect that having chopped off Fetchmail's download leaving half an
e-mail I subsequently re-booted into OS/2 and downloaded the mail. This
would have then deleted the mail from the server so that the next time the
mail
I normally work within a window manager environment (mostly KDE) when
using Debian Potato and have used KMail to download mail directly from my
ISP pop3 accounts.
I recently decided to setup fetchmail to poll my pop3 mail servers in the
background, download any waiting mail and pass it on to
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Barry Samuels wrote:
I normally work within a window manager environment (mostly KDE) when
using Debian Potato and have used KMail to download mail directly from my
ISP pop3 accounts.
I recently decided to setup fetchmail to poll my pop3 mail servers in the
background,
Barry Samuels writes:
...if I disconnect from my ISP without thinking I can cut a mail download
off in mid-stream.
This should not cause any problems as fetchmail will not tell the server to
delete the message until it has received the whole thing and successfully
delivered it. Truncated
hmm.. surely fetchmail normally would take this in stride, re-fetching
the message next time ?
Barry Samuels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I normally work within a window manager environment (mostly KDE) when
using Debian Potato and have used KMail to download mail directly from my
ISP pop3 accounts.
I recently decided to setup fetchmail to poll my pop3 mail servers in the
background,
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 07:35:20PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
[snip]
You can set up a script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ZZZ so that it will be
executed when any other script has finished, something like
#!/bin/sh
wall /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/done-message
wall will display the contents of
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