On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 08:01:20PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
> So I suspect that having chopped off Fetchmail's download leaving half an
> e-mail I subsequently re-booted into OS/2 and downloaded the mail. This
> would have then deleted the mail from the server so that the next time the
> mail
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 06:55:59AM +0100, Pap Tibor wrote:
> And how do you post news messages? Does leafnode do this yob for you too?
Yes, Leafnode will post messages. Basically, what it does is to look
like a standard news server to local readers and look like a regular
news client to the serv
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Simon Michael wrote:
> hmm.. surely fetchmail normally would take this in stride, re-fetching
> the message next time ?
Whoops! Embarrassing admission time.
Your remark above triggered the thought processes and I've work out what I
think happened.
I am not yet using the li
> If the messages are going to different accounts on the mail server, you
can
> have multiple entries in your .fetchmailrc of the form "user foo there is
bar
> here". If they're all going to the same account, you'll need to use
procmail
> or exim (or whatever) filters to divide them up.
Why don'
Pap Tibor said:
> And how do you post news messages? Does leafnode do this yob for you too?
Yes.
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Alan said:
> A quick question on the verge of this discussion ... I am about to
> setup fetchmail to collect my email from my ISP via diald (as described in
> this thread) but would also like to redistribute the mail once collected
> to individual user accounts based on the alias (contents of the
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Barry Samuels wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a way to prevent this apart from running Fetchmail
> manually?
you can use `fetchmail -d ' to start it and `fetchmail --quit' to
stop it. I think fechmail will know what to do if it's fetching and e-mail
when you stop it.
[]s,
Marci
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Alan wrote:
A> A quick question on the verge of this discussion ... I am about to setup
A> fetchmail to collect my email from my ISP via diald (as described in this
A> thread) but would also like to redistribute the mail once collected to
A> individual user accounts ba
"Barry Samuels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: Background mail transfers
"Stephen A. Witt" wrote:
>
> Well, I'm sure there are a lot of ways around this. What I do is to use
> diald to allow on demand connections to
"Stephen A. Witt" wrote:
>
> Well, I'm sure there are a lot of ways around this. What I do is to use
> diald to allow on demand connections to my ISP. I then have a cron job
> that runs fetchmail periodically to get the mail about 4 times a day.
> Additionally I wrote a little perl script that run
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 07:35:20PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
[snip]
> 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-u
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
> backgr
hmm.. surely fetchmail normally would take this in stride, re-fetching
the message next time ?
Barry Samuels writes:
> ...if I disconnect from my ISP without thinking I can cut a mail download
> off in mid-stream.
This should not cause any problems as fetchmail will not tell the server to
delete the message until it has received the whole thing and successfully
delivered it. Truncated mess
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Barry Samuels wrote:
> 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
> backgr
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 procm
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