On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Johnathan Smith wrote:
> I have redhat 7.0 and I used install-sendmail to setup
> my sendmail server. I have a issues. my ISP will not
> let sendmail send smtp request out until I get my POP
> mail using my user/password. At the time of my
> getting my pop mail my isp will get my IP address so
> if I do a sendmail after using netscape to read my
> mail it works. How can I get around this>
>
Are you using a dialup connection to the internet? If so, then you could
run fetchmail to get your mail from your ISP, and then "sendmail -q" to
send any waiting messages after your ISP has your IP. You may also want
to set up sendmail to use the deffered delivery mode if you haven't
already, so it doesn't try and do DNS lookups, or try and send mail when
you are not online.
If you have a fulltime connection, you could use the same type of setup,
and run fetchmail and sendmail -q from a cron job. Or you could play with
the timing and run fetchmail in the daemon mode, and have it check often
enough to keep your IP active with your ISP.
Or maybe someone know how to set up sendmail to run a scrip before
delivering mail? (Or do pop before send?)
Mikkel
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for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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