It's 19 Jun 98 17:10:16,
We'll return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and All's
discussion of Automatic Email fetcher
ra> Does anyone know of a program that will dial into an ISP (like maybe
ra> one specifies ppp1), initiate POP and SMTP downloads, and SMTP uploads,
ra> and after all such traffic has completed, drops the connection?
ra> I know what the steps are manually. But I want to setup a cron job
ra> that will do this for me, especially for those times when I have to
ra> spend a few days out-of-town. The asynchronous nature of some of these
ra> operations, is what's stopping me from doing it with a script file.
You could probably cobble something up with diald and some clever ip-up
scripting.
The ip-up script would have to do the following:
Run a fetch process to pick up your POP mail.
Run sendmail -q to flush sendmail's queue.
diald would be configured to bring up the interface at a specific time,
or alternatively, a cron job triggers a dummy event that will initiate
the connection (e.g. a one off ping). After traffic stups, diald will
shut down the link after a specified idle time (and alternatively, it
could be configured to shut down the link after a certain time, to
handle the case of a connection "sticking" open.
I haven't tried this, but it should work.
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