sendmail and dialups
Robert J.Dunlop
rjd at chaser.co.uk
Thu Feb 10 15:29:27 GMT 2000
Hi,
> is there any way of dialing up your ISP and getting sendmail to
> collect all your mail held in youre mailbox on their servers
> and send to the the correct users on the machine.
Well if you use Demon it happens automatically. A few seconds after you
log in their punt servers attempt SMTP delivery to your machine.
If your ISP only supports POP then take a look at "fetchmail". This is
a program that retrieves mail via POP or similar and then injects it into
your local mail system via your chosen MDA (sendmail).
I've used it both as a periodic polling mechanism and as a user run fetch
mechanism. To run it when you log into your ISP should be a simple matter
of putting it in your ppp.linkup file.
hth
--
Bob Dunlop
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