[Sheflug - Sheffield Linux User's Group] Re: More on Fetchmail

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Richard wrote:

> 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.

Piffle.  Try the following (from memory) in your ip-up script:

su -c richard "fetchmail -d 600"

and the following in your ip-down script:

su -c richard "fetchmail --quit"

should do the trick.  Assuming that your .fetchmailrc file is written
correctly (I think it warns you if it's wrong).


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