On Wednesday 27 February 2002 05:31 pm, Binand Raj S. wrote: > On Wednesday 27 February 2002 4:03 am, Yashpal Nagar wrote: > > I want one utility running on ONLINE server which will connect to my GW > > m/c if mails comes to that mailbox ... > > Rather than leting the G/w machine to run fetchmail every time > > irrespective of mails on ONLINE server or not. > > How does it matter which machine initiates the TCP connection? I had posted > a solution a few weeks before. Run fetchmail on the g/w machine from a > script as: > > if fetchmail -c server.name; then > fetchmail -a server.name > fi
Yes Binand, This approach seems to be good that first it will check whether mail is present there if yes then fetches ortherwise not. Let me write my script i will get back to you. > > Or, if your online machine knows how to find your g/w machine, then run > fetchmail on your gateway as: > > fetchmail --proto etrn server.name presently my m/c is inside LAN i don't have real IP for it ;) > > (Won't work if the online server doesn't queue mails for you; ie, if it > delivers the mails locally to a catch all mailbox). > > Binand > Regards -Yash > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
