[KLUG Members] Sendmail as POP3?

[Robert G. Brown]

>Progress!!  Details below.
Outstanding! I'm pruning any stuff that's already happened, etc.
>Tried to install ipop, couldn't find it anywhere.  Turns out it was 
>already installed.  Man, I hate the GnomeRPM.
I do all this stuff at the command line. I also check before I try
to install something, and I keep a directoy of the version online.
I've found it save time and trouble.

>Wouldn't that be two hensway?
No. Some people just don't know nothin' about grammar! :)

>Actually, it was already installed, I had to enable it as a service (
>calls itself ipop3), reboot, and, 'hey!' it works.
Actually, you don't have to reboot at all. For this kind of thing,
merely restarting xinted is fine. 

>Which leads to my next questions:  Fetchmail isn't listed as a service 
>I can "enable on boot."  So, how can I get it to fire on boot?
You can:
 1. Add it as a service.
 2. edit in a call to get it started in /etc/rc.d/rc.local 
 3. Remember to start it yourself on those ultra-rare occasions when
    you do reboot.

>Lastly, the default "interval" is zero (0).  Does that mean it never runs?  
Beats me. I think there's a default.

I wrote a script that starts and stops fetchmail, just like the other
scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d, and for the asking I'll send it to you,
or even post it on this list so everyone can see it. That might make it 
easier to execute choice 1, above. A magum opus it ain't.

>If seconds, then setting it to 300 would poll the external POP3 servers 
>every five minutes, for example.
That's right. I think you can also set this for each pop3 server you're
polling, so if you get lots of mail from one, you can poll it more frequently,
and less frequently from others, where the traffic may be lighter. Fetchmail
also supports other mail polling/retrieval protocols, like IMAP.

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