In debian you are supposed to put scripts which you want run when
connecting in '/etc/ppp/ip-up.d'. Also, make sure the permssions are correct
(-rwxr-xr-x) And (just to ask the obvious) is the command actually
pointing to fetchmail (debian places it in /usr/bin/). Apart from this I
can't think of any reason why it won't work, as it works just fine for me.
This is what my .fetchmailrc looks like (owned by root):
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poll pop.prestel.co.uk with proto pop3
user <user> there has password <password>
is dave here
postconnect /usr/bin/runq
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And the relevant lines from the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/local script look like this:
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#!/bin/sh
fetchmail # <-Just to make sure the mail is fetched immediatly on
fetchmail -d 180 # later connects.
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HTH.
Cheers
Dave
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 03:06 -0000, Pollywog wrote:
> I am having a problem with Fetchmail. I can get mail if I connect to the
> Internet and then use the command 'fetchmail', but when I was using OpenLinux,
> I just put:
>
> /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 600
>
> in my /etc/ppp/ip-up and I could get my mail whenever I went online with
> diald.
>
> I am unable to do that now and need to enter the command manually.
> Is there a way to do in Debian what I did in OpenLinux?
>
> thanks
>
> --
> Andrew
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