On 05-Sep-99 Martin Fluch wrote: > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> >> On 05-Sep-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > at home, I have my brothers and I want to do the following >> > thing: >> > when PPP goes up fetchmail get all the mail from them and store >> > in /var/spool/mail/paulo pedro luiz .... >> > So I have to have a .fetchmailrc for root with all the accounts? >> > in >> > /root? >> >> That is how I do it. > > Have a look at /usr/doc/fetchmail. There are two skripts to be put in > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/ and an sample global > fetchmailrc > file, to be put in /etc/. fetchmail will automaticaly run as a deamon, > fetching mail for different users in regular intervalls, till the ppp > conection goes down. I guess, that's the best way to do it.
Thanks. I wondered if I could do it that way. I will check it out. -- Andrew
