Sorry for the length of this message, I left all previous quotes in because this thread hasn't been used for quite some time. See below: Mike Kenzie wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: Damian Slavek To: suse-linux-e Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 3:17 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] /etc/ppp/ip-up

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BobF wrote:

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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Damian Slavek wrote:

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Is the file /etc/ppp/ip-up read every time a ppp

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established? I looked around quite a bit and coudn't find anything about that. I use a moden to connect to my ISP.

I have been busting a nut trying to configure a few things just right and then I stumbled across this file with most of what I would like to do commented out. I would be quite pleased if all I had to do was delete a few # symbols and enter in some site specific info. If this is so I will have to join the throng of folks praising

connection is the suse team on a

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job well done.

On my system (6.3) ip-up is a shell script and yes it is used every time you make a connection to your dial up account.

What are you trying to do? -- Bob F

I was trying to fine tune the sendmail configuration from yast. Don't get me wrong, it worked flawlessly for what it was intented to do. Just wanted it to send my mail when I make a connection and have fetchmail get my new mail. After a few days of digging I finally found what I wanted, In the SuSE manual, my bad :( (feeling pretty stupid). I then stumbled upon the ip-up script and found the section #Maybe you want to start mail services Now that I know it is run at every ppp connect I just have to configure fetchmail, uncomment the proper lines, and I'm good to go. Thank you for the info.

Damian

I have mine set up this way. I now get an error when I try and compose a letter (with pine) offfline. I think sendmail has to be active but spooling when there is no connection.

I went and uncommented the last two lines shown here that are in /etc/ppp/ip-up #maybe you want to start some mail services: #set follow variables in /etc/rc.config # SENDMAIL_TYPE="yes" # SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST="smtp:mailserver.myisp.net" # SENDMAIL_ARGS="-bd -om" # SENDMAIL_EXPENSIVE="yes" # SENDMAIL_NOCANONIFY="yes" /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -v >>/var/log/fetchmail 2>&1 & /usr/sbin/sendmail -q & The uncommented lines are exactly as shown in ip-up. I still have to run the commands fetchmail and sendmail by hand to get anything to go in or out, but they are both already running as daemons. That's why those two test messages from me came in close together they were actually written and hour or two apart, I just didn't figure out that I had to run those commands until just a little while ago. Sendmail is spooling my mail fine, I just want it to send everything and get new messages everytime I connect to my ISP. I don't remember if I stated this in an earlier post but I use the wvdial.dod script and it works perfectly. Is there something else I have to do to get this to work right? Thank you for all the previous help. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

Damian Slavek wrote:

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I went and uncommented the last two lines shown here that are in /etc/ppp/ip-up

#maybe you want to start some mail services: #set follow variables in /etc/rc.config # SENDMAIL_TYPE="yes" # SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST="smtp:mailserver.myisp.net" # SENDMAIL_ARGS="-bd -om" # SENDMAIL_EXPENSIVE="yes" # SENDMAIL_NOCANONIFY="yes" /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -v >>/var/log/fetchmail 2>&1 & /usr/sbin/sendmail -q &

The uncommented lines are exactly as shown in ip-up. I still have to run the commands fetchmail and sendmail by hand to get anything to go in or out, but they are both already running as daemons.

Actually, my fetchmail seems to be working fine, I just had to change the poll time. I still can't get sendmail to send my mail right away. What I would like it to do is: 1. When I am offline simply spool the mail till the next time I connect, if I am offline it is usually for a reason and I don't want a connection initiated. 2. When I an online send my mail as soon as I hit <control>X (I am using pine).

Is there a way I could do this? I know I can do it some how with the settings in /etc/rc.config, but what would be a good way of doing this?

I'm afraid I can't find the rest of this thread, and it's a bit old, but... have you tried putting 'sendmail -q' in your /etc/ppp/ip-up script? That will flush the mail queue. Hope you get it fixed, Chris -- Apologies to everyone who has been waiting for replies off me over the past few weeks - I've been away from my computer. I'll try to catch up with my email over the coming days, but don't be surprised if you get a reply in a month's time... __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/