Yeah, this can be done, you need to configure sendmail and fetchmail and then run them from /etc/ppp/ip-up.local It worked for me but i cant remember the specifics, have a surf about on google for ip-up.local sendmail should get you some response, the best thing i found was a great script for configuring sendmail, save me reading and figuring out the config files. Grant Walton wrote:

Hi

I have a small masquerading mail server/gateway set up on my home network (two clients). I have set up a manual connection to my ISP using standard dialer scripts. I would now like to use two sets of dial up scripts - one for when I want the gateway to stay online until I explicitly hang up, and another that will initiate a connection, collect and send mail, and then hang up immediately this has been done i.e. I can leave it unattended once the connection has been established. How can this be done?

Thanks.

Grant.

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