On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Steve Kostecke wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > [snip] > > My question is: What is a good method to go about checking for and > > delivering messages? Is there some slick app (gui or otherwise) that > > automates this procedure, or should I hack my chatscript to run > [snip] > > I use a program called fetchmail (yes, there is a debian package) to > periodically grab mail from two mailboxes at my ISP (mindspring). You > could just as easily check mailboxes at several ISPs. Fetchmail DLs the > mail and hands each message to smail (or sendmail...) for delivery. > There is no fancy front-end (this is UN*X...) just an easy to edit text > config file. > > My linux box is setup to automatically check my mail approximately every > two hours when off-line and every 10 minutes when I'm on-line. Outgoing > mail is queued when off-line and delivered immediately via SMTP when on-line. > I use a cron job to tell diald to bring up the ppp link. All of the mail > stuff happens automagically as part of my ppp start/stop sequence. > > You might want to reconsider using sendmail. For a single user system > sendmail is overkill; it is a heavy duty (aka ISP) type of mailer.
You mean reconsider using smail. Yeah, I know..and I'll consider it.. [snip] Thanks Dale Harris, Remco, Joe Stewart and Steve Kostecke. I have an aversion to the word "fetch", due to psychological damage imposed by the surrealistic image which lingers in my sub-conscious of many a late night in a Macintosh lab, when I would use the "fetch" program which produced a barking dog sound, in concert with all the duck quacking, frog croacking and other animal sounds from roughly a hundred other Macs--crimony! (For a couple programming courses taught on Macs, had to use "fetch" to save my code before I compiled, else a crash was imminent.) So, it probably would've been quite some time before I read up on fetchmail. Thanks for the quick save, guys. (Bark! Bark! <g>) David Stern -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
