Ben wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem with unwanted packages that cause diald to dial out
> unnecessarily.
>
> I have Red Hat 5.2 and Diald installed on my Linux server. It runs an IMAP
> server and uses fetchmail to fetch emails periodically from my ISP. From my
> client machines (running NT and Linux) we use Netscape messenger to read
> mail from the Linux IMAP server.
I had the same problem with netscape 4.5. It is not the IMAP but Messenger
trying to load the netcenter webpage from the netscape site. You cannot disable
this with the netscape options dialog, you have to edit the config file
directly.
You can find how to do this, somewhere on help.netscape.com.
>
> The problem is often when a client machine tries to read mail from the IMAP
> server, the diald on the server is invoked and attempts a dial-up
> (unnecessarily). On the server I have banned all imap packages in my
> /usr/lib/diald/standard.filter using lines (see below) but somehow it still
> slip through. This happens everytime the client first start up the
> netscape messenger, and once in a while during subsequent polling of mails.
Maybe it is a DNS request that opens the link. Use dctrl to see what opens
the link. Add the ip-address to your /etc/hosts file to solve this problem.
Richard Duits
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