More on Fetchmail

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Hello

I've got sendmail working in SuSE 6.4.  Even sent some mail with Pine. 
However, after configuring and testing fetchmail I find that it will
download mail with "fetchmail -v" but not when I connect.

To get sendmail to send mail I have the following script in
/etc/ppp/ip-up.......


># maybe you want to start mail services:
>
> /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -v /home/richard/.fetchmailrc
>>/var/log/fetchmail 2>&1 & 
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q & 

that's the bit at the bottom.  As you can see fetchmail is configured to
download the mail with "home/richard/.fetchmailrc.  But it doesn't
download mail with those syntax.  How should I change this so that mail
is downloaded when I connect ?  I have tried putting the .fetchmail
script into  the ip-up script complete with passwords.  That doesn't
work either.  There's also a good risk of the passwords being spotted by
a cyber theif.

It's easy to find someone who can set up a mail system on a mailserver
but as soon as you want fetchmail for dialup no one knows what to do.

Thanks

-- 
Richard
Sheffield UK

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