Re: ppp + ip-up.d + fetchmail + multiple polls

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  6 Nov, Colin Marquardt wrote about "ppp + ip-up.d + fetchmail + multiple polls"
> Hi,
> 
> the subject shows that I have no clue where to look :-)
> 
> My problem is this: my ~/.fetchmailrc specifies four different
> accounts to poll mail from. When I´m running fetchmail by hand, all
> four accounts are polled, like it should.
> 
> I have a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that looks like this:
> 
> | #!/bin/sh -e
> | ## This script is run when the ppp link goes up.
> | 
> | echo "Fetchmail starting..." > /dev/console
> | 
> | fetchmail -vvv -a 2> /dev/console
> | 
> | echo "Fetchmail ready." > /dev/console
> 
> Now, when I go online and this script is run automatically, fetchmail
> only queries the first of my four accounts! (I can observe this because
> I´m sending the fetcmail output to /dev/console).
> 
> Has anyone an idea why this is?
> My system is a plain slink in this part, fetchmail is version 4.6.4.
> 

The scripts in ip-up.d are run as root.  Thus the fetchmail script you
have would be using /root/.fetchmailrc and not your .fetchmailrc. 
Would there happen to be a .fetchmailrc in /root that contains the
first isp as is in your .fetchmailrc?  The way around this is to use
the --fetchmailrc command line option.  Look at the sample files in
/usr/doc/fetchmail for fetchmail-up and fetchmail-down.

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