Topic: fetchmail dial-up problem

[Ed Form]

brian read wrote:
>
> i'd also like to hear what the solution to this is.  I have a
> customer whose dial up line only collects email when it is
> already online, and it is driving them (and me) mad.

The answer to this is usually to bypass DNS. Put the mail server address is as its IP number.

Ed Form

[brian read]

Ed, no I'm afraid it is not that problem, I have already set the IP address for the maiI server.

We can only pick up mail if we make sure that the dial up modem is already on (by surfing the web).

Brian

[RobT]

Brian wrote:
> We can only pick up mail if we make sure that the dial up modem is already
> on (by surfing the web).

Thats right ! And I've remembered a couple of other things from when I was testing 5.1.2 about three weeks ago now and no notes here so this is from memory.
I noticed after one of many reboots, that it did pickup mail on the first connection but not subsequently.

On comparing logs with the 4.1.2 setup (same config) I noticed that it (4.1.2) starts every connection by  calling IP 0.0.0.0

5.1.2 uses IP 0.0.0.0 also the first time but after that it calls the IP received during the dynamic IP change and this is usually different each time it connects.

I also noted from the log comparison, just after the connection is made 4.1.2 does KERNEL ppp whereas 5.1.2 has an error for MOD CHAR_MAJOR xx (sorry can't remember exactly now)

Brian perhaps you could comfirm this if your setup is still running ? Mine is not yet. (this weekend I hope.)

Cheers Rob

[brian read]

Rob

I can't get to the logs until Monday or Tues, so perhaps if you can see over the weekend, I'd be grateful

Brian

[Sam]

This is a very old thread to revitalise but I trawled and trawled it for answers and it did not solve my little problem.  In the end I had to resort to commercial support but looking back the answer is above but somewhat confused....

Internal PCI ISDN modem connecting to a dialup isp Onetel (UK) on a 5.5 box with update 2

When someone (ie support) was entering the e-smith box via PPTP the mail would collect and then when they broke the connection it stopped......  Take my hat off to Paul at LinuxIT - he solved it... down to the ^PPP command in /etc/startmail.  An ISDN modem starts up an IPPP so this is not found by ^PPP because the ^ means that it must start with PPP not contain the letters PPP.

Remove the ^ and bingo - you have new mail.

Want to see what is going on..  swap the --silent --syslog in fetchmail for --verbose and the admin postbox should get an email of each successful connection.

Sam

Iam learning slowly, bear with me, stick with it, this one took me about 8 days of messin !