[SLE] Email Auto-Download Daemon?
Greetings Quick summary: When kppp makes connection with my ISP, some background program downloads the email and puts it in /var/spool/mail/... How do I defeat this automatic download? I want the mail to download to ~/Mail/inbox/cur only when I request it through kmail. Mail can be sent from kmail. Received messages can be read via mutt. Messages sent to myself appear in kmail inbox if the kppp connection is continuous between the two. Background: This problem did not occur in the 7 or so previous installation with Red Hat and, more recently, 3 with SuSE. This fall, my father-in-law (age 84) finally gave up his OS/2 and put aside his concerns about the evils of the Internet and, by association, email. Although a newbe, I volunteered as the "expert" to get SuSE Linux installed. After 3 weeks of my dumb theories and fruitless experiments, he may be ready to take his daughter back! The father-in-law machine is a vanilla Dell Dimension 2400 with SuSE Professional 8.2, - with KDE, no ethernet, dialup ISP. A Dell c400 laptop and an MSI KD7-based, dual Athlon system both have SuSE 8.2 identically installed - well, I used the same responses to all the relevant YAST questions in each. SuSE installed without a complaint in the father-in-law machine (except for the noisy rural phone line) until this behaveor appeared around December 2. There are no other problems. By his admission, there was some "exploring" while I wasn't there, but neither of us can figure out what he (or possibly I) may have done. Any advice on which config file must be modified? Better yet, what was improperly specified in kmail, kppp, YaST install, or control center? Jim
On 12/27/2003 06:40 AM, James Kuzdrall wrote:
Quick summary: When kppp makes connection with my ISP, some background program downloads the email and puts it in /var/spool/mail/...
Check /etc/ppp/ifup script and make sure some of the programs in there, like fetchmail, haven't been accidentally activated.
How do I defeat this automatic download?
Comment out the line starting the program, or delete if added. Kppp could do it, must you would have had to explicitly added the commands to do it, by default it only connects. I am using 8.2 and kppp, and it will only do what you tell it to.
Any advice on which config file must be modified? Better yet, what was improperly specified in kmail, kppp, YaST install, or control center?
My first guess is someone told Yast to do something, and it modified /etc/ppp/ifup to start some programs when he got online. Just recomment the lines and I would guess you are back in business. HTH -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
The Friday 2003-12-26 at 17:40 -0500, James Kuzdrall wrote:
Quick summary: When kppp makes connection with my ISP, some background program downloads the email and puts it in /var/spool/mail/... How do I defeat this automatic download? I want the mail to download to ~/Mail/inbox/cur only when I request it through kmail.
If file "/etc/fetchmailrc" exists and is configured, then script "/etc/ppp/poll.tcpip" (which is automatically started on every modem connection going up) will run fetchmail. You might have set this up inadvertently using yast to set up mail.
around December 2. There are no other problems. By his admission, there was some "exploring" while I wasn't there, but neither of us can figure out what he (or possibly I) may have done.
Ah, I think I know :-)
Any advice on which config file must be modified? Better yet, what was improperly specified in kmail, kppp, YaST install, or control center?
Yast has the option to define mail servers. I simply disabled "/etc/ppp/poll.tcpip", because I use my own "/etc/ppp/ip-up.local" script instead. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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Carlos E. R.
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James Kuzdrall
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Joe Morris (NTM)