Topic: /etc/startmail problems...

[Nico Blok]

Hi everyone,

Since a day or two i'm having a problem with retreiving mail from my ISP. I'm using 5.6U4. The script /etc/startmail doesn't do anything so the mail is not fetched. When i use /etc/fetchmail and the line is open, then the mail will be collected. I think there is a problem with the startmail script:

if /sbin/ifconfig | /bin/grep -q '^ppp'
then
  /bin/su - qmailr -s /bin/bash -c \
        "FETCHMAILHOME=/var/lock/fetchmail /etc/fetchmail"
else
  /usr/bin/killall -USR1 diald
fi

I don't know what the problem is. This is happening since I've changed the dialup connection from a analog modem to a ISDN-connection. I'm using a multidrop-config.
Internet sharing works fine.

Greetings,

Nico

[Brian Read]

Post the output from "ifconfig" when the ISDN line is up.

I suspect this is the 5.5 bug where "^ppp" does not match the ISDN device name (which is probably "ippp".

Cheers

Brian

[Nico Blok]

Thanks, I fixed the problem. The problem was the one you mentioned.