Hi there! My mail provider uses smtp-after-pop (i.e.you must query for new mail first before being able to send). Currently I invoke fetchmail and sendmail via /etc/ppp/ip-up but it looks like sendmail gets first there most of the time, which means the server rejects my mails. If I invoke sendmail -q some minutes later from the prompt, everything works fine. Tried my luck with 'wait' but there seem to be some process handling involved I don't understand yet. So what I need is this: some script lines in /etc/ppp/ip-up that invoke sendmail-q *after* fetchmail has dld its first batch (runs in daemon mode while being online at an interval of 500). Or just telling it to wait some 5 minutes after connect before trying to deliver mail. I already thought of decreasing the delivery interval set in /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail but I don't know if a short interval like 10 min won't put an unreasonable load on the system, furthermore I often do only connect to receive mail, which means I would have the interval set to a very small number. Ideas anyone? Thanks tom -- "Everybody is someone else's newbie" (Marilyn Manson, edited) Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No spam, no UCE. 'Nuff said. Get Answers! Visit Mandrake Answers on http://aolmfaq.tsx.org!
