First, I wish to thank Thomas E. Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for his
encouragement, and a few suggestions on how to do this. He got me over
the frustration hurdle. Thanks Thomas.
What follows is a script file (in csh, because that's what I'm most
comfortable with) to dial into an Email provider, pickup and send Email,
and then logout again. I just tested it, from cron, and it works great
(for me). If it works for you too, I will be very pleased. Please let
me know.
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#!/bin/csh -f
#
# go_fetch_mail is written to use the ppp1 interface, as setup in a
# RedHat environment (mine is V5.1), to automatically dial into your
# Email provider, and fetch both SMTP and POP mail. It assumes that
# root has a properly configured .fetchmailrc in it's home directory.
# This script will also force sendmail to ship out any local Email
# that was queued because your link was down.
#
# Note that if your link is up when this routine runs, this script
# will exit without doing anything.
#
# Designed for use by cron. Put this script file in /usr/local/bin, and
# put a line like the following in /etc/crontab
#
# 15 2,8,12,16,20 * * * root /usr/local/bin/go_fetch_mail
#
# etrn.pl is a perl script file, the latest version of which is
# available in the contrib directory of the sendmail distribution.
#
set email_server=email.vnet.net
set Device="ppp1"
set if_device="ppp0"
#
if (`ifconfig | grep ${if_device}` != "") then
exit
endif
set file_size=`ls -l /var/log/maillog |awk '{print $5}'`
ifup ${Device}
sleep 45
set foo=`ifconfig | grep ${if_device}`
while ("${foo}" == "")
sleep 10
set foo=`ifconfig | grep ${if_device}`
end
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q
/usr/local/bin/etrn.pl ${email_server}
/usr/bin/fetchmail --batchlimit 1000
set NeW=`ls -l /var/log/maillog |awk '{print $5}'`
while (${file_size} != ${NeW})
set file_size=${NeW}
sleep 30
set NeW=`ls -l /var/log/maillog |awk '{print $5}'`
end
ifdown ${Device}
exit
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