Re: [Plug] Problems with fetchmail and smail

["Roger C. Scudder Jr." <rscudder@bellatlantic.net>]

You could automate the task with a shell script.  I have one I
call getmail.  It starts by cleaning up any old log files (I like
to keep mail logs) then calls fetchmail -c to see if there is any 
mail waiting on the server.   If there is it start fetchmail in 
daemon mode.  You could modify this script to start qmail after 
fetchmail. 

#!/bin/sh
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
#
#  $HOME/bin/getmail.sh - automate common tasks involved in 
#                         retrieving e-mail from a POP server
#
#                         related files: .fetchmailrc
#
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Delete old log and backup files lest they become extremely huge.
#
if [ -e $HOME/fetchmail.log ]; then
    rm -f $HOME/fetchmail.log
fi

if [ -f $HOME/mail/procmail-log ]; then
    rm -f $HOME/mail/procmail-log
fi

#
# If there is mail waiting start fetchmail in daemon mode.
#
if [ -e $HOME/.fetchmailrc ]; then
    printf "%s\n" "Attempting connection with bellatlantic POP3 server"
    fetchmail -c

    rc=$?

    if [ $rc -eq 0 ]; then
	printf "%s\n" "Starting the fetchmail daemon"
	fetchmail -d300 -v -a
    else
	printf "%s\n" "Ending fetchmail session"
    fi
fi

I hope this works for you.


Roger Scudder


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