ip-up & ip-local problem with SuSe 7.1

Hello! I use wvdial as my Internet dialer and fetchmail & sendmail, as well as leafnode news server. I'd like to automatically (with the ip-up and/or ip-local script) to fetch and send my mail with fetchmail & sendmail, as well as to start SuSE firewall. I have uncommented appropriate lines to start fetchmail & sendmail in ip-up script and wvdial reports after connection that the script is running, however I cannot see that the mail is fetching and sending. For now, I manually start fetchmail & fetchnews, as well as sendmail -v -q. Please, if someone can explain me and/or send me the script to have automated sending/fetching mail and news, setting system clock and starting firewall. Sincerely, Sasa