Hi there, I've installed fetchmail on my system and created a .fetchmailrc file in my home directory. Everything works fine and now I want to automate the download job.
The situation is the following: I am poor student in German :) and only connect once or twice a day to the internet to download my mail and occasionally to do some surfing. So I thought of placing a script with `fetchmail -d 300` into the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory and a script with `fetchmail -q` into the /etc/ppp/ip-down.d directory. The problem is that those scripts are executed as root, so I need to put the .fetchmailrc file into the root directory. Although this is a one-user system, this is undesirable, because I like to keep everything in my home directory and because it won't be a one-user system for long. Another option would be writing a pon wrapper script, but that's also undesirable, because I like to use kppp for its nice accounting options. It would also break with demand dialing, which I'm trying to implement soon. Yet another option would be putting the `fetchmail -d 300` stuff into .bash_profile, but that is also undesirable, because then fetchmail will try to fetch mail even if I'm not on the net. It will also not work if I set up a local PPP server that gets its mail from various POP accounts and makes it available for some Windows machines on the local network. So what I want is this: - fetchmail automatically starts if I get online - stays in daemon mode as long as I am online - automatically terminates when I go offline - reads its information from a user file and not from root's .fetchmailrc - this has to work with several users and with several accounts for each user (different login/passwort) I looked into the FAQ and into the man page, but didn't find any applicable information there. Any ideas or URLs where such a system is outlined? If this is not possible, at least I like to have a system where fetchmail is started in daemon mode on boot up and still reads its polling information from user files and not from root's .fetchmailrc. MfG, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/
