Re: fetchmail problem

[Dave Swegen <dave@recursive.prestel.co.uk>]

In debian you are supposed to put scripts which you want run when
connecting in '/etc/ppp/ip-up.d'. Also, make sure the permssions are correct
(-rwxr-xr-x) And (just to ask the obvious) is the command actually
pointing to fetchmail (debian places it in /usr/bin/). Apart from this I
can't think of any reason why it won't work, as it works just fine for me.
This is what my .fetchmailrc looks like (owned by root):

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poll pop.prestel.co.uk with proto pop3
        user <user> there has password <password>
                is dave here
postconnect /usr/bin/runq
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And the relevant lines from the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/local script look like this:

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#!/bin/sh
fetchmail            # <-Just to make sure the mail is fetched immediatly on
fetchmail -d 180     # later connects.
-----------

HTH.

Cheers
	Dave

On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 03:06 -0000, Pollywog wrote:
> I am having a problem with Fetchmail.  I can get mail if I connect to the
> Internet and then use the command 'fetchmail', but when I was using OpenLinux,
> I just put:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 600
> 
> in my /etc/ppp/ip-up and I could get my mail whenever I went online with diald.
> 
> I am unable to do that now and need to enter the command manually.
> Is there a way to do in Debian what I did in OpenLinux?
> 
> thanks
> 
> --
> Andrew
> 
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