As I think I mentioned in the FAQ in install-sendmail, run fetchmail
from /etc/rc.d/rc.local (or somewhere in the startup scripts) with
fetchmail -d 180
which will run fetchmail every 180 seconds to check for and grab any
waiting mail. I'm prettyr certain I mentioned there also how to tell
fetchmail to monitor ppp0 if it was up as well.
Did you run /usr/sbin/sendmail -q -v to send your queued mail?
Donncha.
David Neary wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I recently got a modem (my first!) and I've configured ppp to connect to
> an ISP, and gotten nameservices going. Now I'd like to set up mail, and
> make it play nice :)
>> What I want to do is have mail queueing locally when sent, and be fired
> off automatically when I connect to my ISP. I've run install-sendmail
> (thanks Donnacha!), but I'm still not sending mail correctly, AFAICT.
>> I also want to set up fetchmail to get mail from two fetchmail accounts,
> and drop it to two local accounts, automatically on connection. I'd prefer
> if I could do this in ifup-ppp, rather than login as root and run
> fetchmail manually.
>> Am I thinking of this right? Is it enough to run fetchmail as root from
> within ifup? Is there another more standard/nicer way to do it? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
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