[aclug-L] Mail server and proxy account again.

[Ryan Claycamp <claycamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Once I started getting traffic for everybody, especially mailing lists,
through our proxy account, I discovered my fetchmail/procmail
configuration wasn't working.  After reading the procmail FAQ, I learned
procmail doesn't work very well for what I wanted.  I switched to the
multi-drop function of fetchmail.  When you do the line: user USERTHERE
is USERHERE here, you do: user USERTHERE is USERHERE1 USERHERE2
USERHERE3 etc. here.  I also had to reconfigure our mailer to accept our
domain name as well as the local domain name.

My question now is how do I make sure I have a connection to the
Internet before I attempt to get our mail?  I get error messages from
cron that fetchmail couldn't find the mail server, it only works when
the Internet connection is already up.  What script file could I run
with fetchmail's preconnect command to check if the connection is up and
if not, get it up before continuing?

Ryan
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