[KLUG Members] Sendmail as POP3?

[bill]

"Robert G. Brown" wrote:

> >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.

Good ideas.  And the generic command line command for installing a rpm is ...?

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

Grammar?  I thought it was avoirdupois.

> >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 is why the option to restart ipop3 wasn't available, I guess.

> >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.

How to add a service?

And the command line call for fetchmail (to stick in rc.local) would be?

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

Yup, the default is 0.

> 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.

Ah then, please enlighten us.

> >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.

Well, that answers another question.  I kept configuring and then coming back to
the config program for further changes: changing the default interval wouldn't
"take."  The default interval has to be assigned to a particular mailbox that is
being polled.

thanks,

bill