I use
/sbinstartproc /usr/bin/fetchmail -d900 -f /etc/fetchmailrc
from ip-up.local
and from ip-down.local
/sbin/killproc /usr/bin/fetchmail
fetchmail never hangs even if the connection is terminated prematurely and
is again successful after a redial attempt.
PS: I use the same for sendmail -q5m
It works great
--Indraneel
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On Thu, 11 May 2000, Ramasubramanian,Suresh wrote:
> Babu Kalakrishnan saw fit to inform LI that:
>
> >> Run it in daemon mode / put it in ip-up.local as fetchmail&
> >See this e-mail msg to ESR. ( From the file "ip-up" in the contrib
> >directory of fetchmail source distribution )
>
> Yep, I know - and pointed it out in an earlier mail to doc pavri. I
> personally prefer to run fetchmail manually once every ten minutes or so
> when I am online. In my office, I read an imap folder using mutt's imap
> checking features. Unfortunately, the imap folder is an exchange server,
> and mutt's imap handling features leave a bit to be desired ...
>
> I've been bugging the local sysad to shift my mailbox to the solaris
> machine (where his mailbox is). He says "tomorrow" - let's see :)
>
> >this down to the fact that the "pppd" masks a wide range of signals and
> >this means a time-out does not kick in. As I run the "ip-up" script in
> >"bash" this masking is inheritied by "fetchmail".
>
> That's right - I found it out the hard way - by experience :) My pop3
> server suddenly died and I didn't have _any_ idea till I ran ps aux and
> saw what was going on ...
>
> I took fetchmail out of ip-up.local right then and there.
>
> However, the solution I mentioned was the "simple and basic but
> works" variety :)
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian + sureshr at staff.juno.com
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> but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
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