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Re: One last time: smail problem



Ooooh!

Only a guess -- but make a crontab entry that runs every five minutes that
runs "runq". Probably it should run as 'mail', but I can't be sure.

See what this does. :)

On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:39:27AM -0500, David Kanter wrote:
> I'll post this problem one last time: I must type runq at the console after running fetchmail in order for my e-mail reader to see my new mail. This never happened before, that is until I installed Netscape 4.61 the other day; before, I would run fetchmail and smail ran the queue automatically.
> 
> This is more an inconvenience than anything else---my system isn't broken. But what can I do to remedy this?
> 
> Some info: When installing Netscape, the configuration script said that smail may have to be restarted, and so it was. Also, when reconfiguring smail last night (smailconfig), a message that "There is no crontab" came up. My smail daemon is run via a inet.d.
> 
> Should I bag smail and use another MTA?
> 
> Thanks all,
> Dave
> 
> 
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