Barry Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I normally work within a window manager environment (mostly KDE) when > using Debian Potato and have used KMail to download mail directly from my > ISP pop3 accounts. > > I recently decided to setup fetchmail to poll my pop3 mail servers in the > background, download any waiting mail and pass it on to procmail for > sorting into appropriate folders and then access these folders using KMail. > > This works well but I have realised recently that, because this is now > happening in the background, if I disconnect from my ISP without > thinking I can cut a mail download off in mid-stream. I have half an > e-mail to prove it. > > Can anyone suggest a way to prevent this apart from running Fetchmail > manually? > > Barry Samuels
You can set up a script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ZZZ so that it will be executed when any other script has finished, something like #!/bin/sh wall /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/done-message wall will display the contents of /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/done-message as broadcast msg from root on the consoles. You could also play a sound if you like. Andre
