First of all we get fetchmail working for us ... This is a all you need to
get fetchmail to grab your mail:
all you should need to do in this example is to add your password and
username and mail servers.
set daemon 60 # Poll at 1-minute intervals
defaults
# interface "sl0/10.0.2.15" # SLIRP standard address
user fontenot is fontenot fetchmail-friends magic-numbers here
fetchall
# Use this for production
poll pop.primenet.com protocol POP3:
no dns, aka smtp.primenet.com primenet.com;
password my_password;
Second we get CRON bringing up and shutting down our connection. This
example shows CRON working
from 8AM (Gone to work) to 5PM (Home from work) Monday through Friday
# This is the format for this file ...
#
# * * * * *
# | | | | |_ Day of week (0 - 6, 0 = Sunday)
# | | | |___ Months (1 - 12)
# | | |_____ Days (0 - 31)
# | |_______ Hours (0 - 23)
# |_________ Minutes (0 - 59)
#
# Any field with an * in it means ALL possible
# values are assumed
#
# And here is my CRONTAB file ...
#
# Every hour checking the mail
0 8/17 * * 1/5 /sbin/ifup ppp0
5 8/17 * * 1/5 /sbin/ifdown ppp0
You will also need CRON to call fetchmail, after all it's only a 5 minute
window. This CRONTAB is for user
fontenot. Makes things easier that way. Fontenot gets Fontenots' mail.
# Every hour, two minutes past the hour ...
2 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail
And other than that, just load imap-4.1.BETA-8.i386.rpm.
Then you sit back and let your system take care of your mail. Imapd get
called from inetd so nothing to do there.
I have an NT 4.0 machine that uses Microsoft outlook to check my mail on the
Linux box all the above is on. Looks
like this:
NT 4.0 ------ 386 DX/40 (firewall, ip masq, imapd, samba, etc ...) ------
MODEM ----'NET
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I would also like to help out with this project you have in mind. The HOWTO.
-Paul
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