Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail

2000-12-25 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi Mark, Forgot to mention in my last reply that fetchmail is'nt listed in startup services on either of my machines. Thanks, Dan Mark Weaver wrote: Dan, What you first have to do is make sure that fetchmail is checked to start automatically in Drakeconf-Startup Services. When

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail]

2000-12-25 Thread Daniel Anderson
Mark, I don't have an /etc/ip-up.local. Did you mean /etc/ppp/ip-up? I'm not running ppp on this machine,I use a gateway firewall on another machine with demand dialing to access the internet.I hope to run the server headless and use webmin to administer it.The reason I want to start fetchmail

Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail

2000-12-25 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 25 December 2000 12:00, you wrote: Hi Mark, Forgot to mention in my last reply that fetchmail is'nt listed in startup services on either of my machines. Thanks, Dan Dan, You may want to add it to the list then. You can do that with Linuxconf. It's one of the last things

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail]

2000-12-25 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 25 December 2000 12:31, you wrote: Mark, I don't have an /etc/ip-up.local. Did you mean /etc/ppp/ip-up? I'm not running ppp on this machine,I use a gateway firewall on another machine with demand dialing to access the internet.I hope to run the server headless and use webmin to

Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail

2000-12-25 Thread Daniel Anderson
Mark, Many thanks,that did it.fetchmail is now managed and started by Linuxconf. Dan Mark Weaver wrote: On Monday 25 December 2000 12:00, you wrote: Hi Mark, Forgot to mention in my last reply that fetchmail is'nt listed in startup services on either of my machines.

Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail

2000-12-25 Thread Mark Weaver
Awesome...glad I could help. Mark On Monday 25 December 2000 21:47, you wrote: Mark, Many thanks,that did it.fetchmail is now managed and started by Linuxconf. Dan Mark Weaver wrote: On Monday 25 December 2000 12:00, you wrote: Hi Mark, Forgot to mention in my last reply

[expert] Starting Fetchmail

2000-12-23 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi, Can someone tell me how to start fetchmail when booting? I added the line "/usr/bin/fetchmail" to rc.local,but that didn't work.I can click on rc.local after booting and it starts then.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.1 Dan

Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail

2000-12-23 Thread Michael O'Henly
One way is to run fetchmail as a daemon. Put this in your ~/.bash_profile fetchmail -d 300 This will run fetchmail when you're logged in, polling your mail host every 300 seconds. Be sure to put this in your ~/.bash_logout fetchmail -q On Saturday 23 December 2000 13:17, you wrote: Hi,

Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
Dan, What you first have to do is make sure that fetchmail is checked to start automatically in Drakeconf-Startup Services. When you've done that restart your system. Then is you wish to run fetchmail from a terminal window you can issue this command; fetchmail -u username

[Fwd: Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail]

2000-12-23 Thread Daniel Anderson
Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 19:56:07 -0500 From: Daniel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi mark, I used fetchmailconf to set it up to poll my isp's pop

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail]

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
Anderson spake passionately saying: Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 19:56:07 -0500 From: Daniel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi mark, I used