[ILUG] PPP/mail setup

[David Neary]

Thanks a lot.

I guess I didn't spend as long reading the docs as I thought I had.

I'm presuming that running sendmail -q from /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail will
send mail automatcally, or do I actually have to log in as root to send
off my mail when connected? It's not a major hastle, but it's a hastle :)

I did run sendmail -q, but no mail was sent. At the time I thought it was
because I'd done something wrong in configuration, but I think now it was
a typo in the smtp server.

I'll have another go at it tonight. Thanks again for all the help. 

Cheers,
Dave.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:

> 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.
>