Jim Knoble rearranged electrons thusly:
> Circa 2001-Apr-05 18:08:59 +0200 dixit Gary Jones:
> : I have two questions, but first a bit of system background info. I am
> : on an intermittent dialup, using POP3 (fectmail) to collect mail. I
> : rewrite the outgoing From using a reqrite rule to lookup the user and
> [...]
> : Secondly, is there a way for exim to force a fetchmail (or some other
> : POP3) connection before it tries to send mail?
> There are two ways that i can think of to accomplish this:
There is another way as well ... if you are on an intermittently connected
dialup (not using dial on demand) put this in your /etc/ppp/ip-up.local (this
is on linux, there might be something different in other unixen)
fetchmail&
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q&
[or try this shell script, modified from a script in the postfix FAQ ...]
#!/bin/sh
# poll the pop server first, for pop b4 smtp -- suresh
fetchmail &
# Start deliveries.
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q
# Allow deliveries to start.
sleep 10
# Loop until all messages have been tried at least once.
while mailq | grep '^[^ ]*\*' >/dev/null
do
sleep 10
done
> file, and then checking for the file in the cron job) to enable
> or disable the fetchmail when your dialup link goes up or down,
> respectively.
If you have a dial on demand setup, that is. If not, you needn't run fetchmail
in daemon mode (using -d). The ip-up.local script will call fetchmail as soon
as ppp0 comes up (and you dial into your ISP)
http://www.hserus.net/dlhowto.html for a (little) more - including configuring
exim for a dialup connected box.
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
