>>>>> Jonathan Gift writes:
jg> Hi,
jg> I don't want to reinvent tehwheel, especially if someone has
jg> done a really nice set of the best tires around... I have pon,
jg> fetchmail, and mutt. Anyone have a shell script that ogs in,
jg> starts fetchmail, waits until it's done, then calls poff?
This will work:
#!/bin/sh
# Start the connection
pon
# Wait until the connection is made
until ifconfig ppp0 2>/dev/null | grep "inet addr" > /dev/null;
do sleep 1;
done;
# Get the mail and then poff. Using ; is better than && because
# fetchmail exits with an error if it doesn't get any mail.
fetchmail -d0 > /dev/null ; poff
--
Chris
