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Date:      Sun, 28 Jul 2002 10:01:27 +0000
From:      "D. Penev" <dpenev@mail.bg>
To:        Paulo Roberto <nirv199@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: starting fetchmail from ppp.linkup on FreeBSD 4.6
Message-ID:  <20020728100127.GA371@earth.dpsca.bg>

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On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 07:07:10AM -0700, Paulo Roberto wrote:
>Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 07:07:10 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Paulo Roberto <nirv199@yahoo.com>
>Subject: starting fetchmail from ppp.linkup on FreeBSD 4.6
>
>Hello,
>
>I am having some trouble trying to run fetchmail in daemon mode, being
>started from /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup in FreeBSD 4.6.
>At the /var/log/ppp.log I get:
>ppp[56]: tun0: Command: papchap: ! sh /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -v -f
>/root/.fetchmailrc >> /tmp/FETCHMAIL.LOG

I have such troubles so I put fetchmail in daemon mode with command argument
instead of .fetchmailrc. Remove any "set daemon ..." in .fetchmailrc and try
this in ppp.linkup:

! /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d <interval>


>But no mail is retrieved (yup, I sent myself dozens of emails to test
>it) and even no output is directed to my test file.
>Does fetchmail needs any special parameter to be run at ppp.linkup?
>
>thanks
>
>Paulo Roberto
>
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Regards,
D. Penev

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