[aclug-L] Re: Mail Server Question
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Curtis Hawthorne wrote:
>
> I have a dedicated Mail/Internet server and was wondering how to
> do the following (I have a dial on demand Internet Connection).
> I want it to look for new mail (fetchmail) and send out any mail
> that it has queued (sendmail) every 45 minutes or so. What is the
> best way to do this? I would put it in as a Cron job, but I only
> want it to run when I'm connected. I'm using Diald to connect.
Put it in a cron job and have the script check the status of the PPP
connection. If it's up, run fetchmail and sendmail -q
-jeff
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