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