Dear fellow Debianers,
I have just come to Debian 3 weeks ago, and still struggle to set up
my previous dialup conf using another linux version.
Here is what I want:
Every time I log on to my isp (from anywhere in my box, could be
root, or other users) I want my email downloaded, and sorted to the
appropriate mailboxes, automatically by procmail. Before this
happens I also want to sent all the queued mail out to the world.
And when I shut down my connection I want fetchmail demon to be
stopped.
Here is what I have:
If I have the connection up, and start fetchmail, I got all my mail
downloaded and sorted to my mailboxes. I can send mail with exim.
So, the problem is how to automate this. Previously I had my
.fetchmailrc in the root dir:
# Configuration created Sun Oct 22 22:14:46 2000 by fetchmailconf
set postmaster "debuser"
set bouncemail
set properties ""
poll pop.freeserve.net protocol POP3
user bablabla.net.co.uk there with password passwd is debuser here
poll pop.amexmail.com protocol POP3
user blabla there with password passwd is debuser here
And I had a file called ip-up.local in /etc/ppp :
#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q
/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 2000
And at the end of connection I had ip-down.local:
#!/bin/bash
fetchmail --quit
I noticed that here under debian there is a dir with autoscripts:
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ and
/etc/ppp/ip-down.d/
but when I put my scripts there I still do not get my mail
automatically downloaded...
I am sure that many of you have this auto set up, please help me to
troubleshoot this.
Thanks in advance. -- Viktor
