Re: [Sheflug] Assorted newbie problems

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

On Sun, 7 May 2000, Harvey Kelly wrote:

> Having decided to "learn" Linux (whatever the hell that means), I've tried
> using Pine for my mail, Lynx for browsing, and avoided KDE/Gnome like the
> plague.

Ahh, a command liner after my own heart... <g>

> My queries are: 1) How do you fetchmail?  I can hear all your groans
> as I write this, but hey...

OK, assuming you've got a working MTA:

Place the line

poll <server> protocol <proto> user <username> pass <password> is
<localusername> here

in your $HOME/.fechmailrc file (all on one line).  Then add the line

su -c <localusername> "fetchmail --daemon 300"

in ip-up, and

su -c <localusername> "fetchmail --quit"

in ip-down.

Simple.

I'll have a page up about this and procmail soon.

> and 2) I'm using wvdial (SuSE 6.2) to open and
> close the connection, is there an easier (command-line based) way?  On

chat.


-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <disclaimer.h>
Matthew Palmer
mjp16@uow.edu.au

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
To unsubscribe from this list send mail to
- <sheflug-request [at] vuw.ac.nz> - with the word 
 "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. 

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.