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I want mail checking to download mail (maild option?)
I want mail checking to download mail (maild option?)

I want mail checking to download mail (maild option?)I want mail checking to download mail (maild option?) (modified 0 times) bungee
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Even though i have a working USB ethernet adaptor ($12 at shentech.com) I've decided (due to wiring issues) to have my audrey just connect via the modem.

I have my kcrontab set up to check for mail at apropriate times (just before I wake up, and jsut before I get home from work) and it works just fine (nice flashing lights when I come home).

however it appears that it only 'checks' for mail and doesn't download it. I have to click get new mail (and initiate another call) to actually read the mail.

I tried running maild from the command line and it didn't appear to do anything (not even dial up) why is that?

I've read through over 6 months of archives here and can only find one other thread that asks the same question with no replies.

One clue I got was to use fetchmail and sendmail together, which appear to be pretty bulky.

any other ideas?

the only other option I have is to write my own pop3 client that dumps the files into /data/email/in/ and then flash the LEDs.

Alex

04-22-2002 15:15:43

RE:I want mail checking to download mail (maild option?)RE:I want mail checking to download mail (maild option?) (modified 0 times) bungee
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Wow, the response was overwhelming!

since noone here will help (even after I threw you the $12 USB-ethernets link)

I have QNX now on my windows partition so I'm able to compile stuff just fine.
I'm going to compile fetchmail and then use that with a fallback mta I'm going to write myself to deposit the mail in /data/email/in

once I get it all set up I'll put links to downloadable files here

http://www.bloodyeck.com/projects/audrey/

Alex

04-24-2002 12:52:45

RE:I want mail checking to download mail (maild option?)RE:I want mail checking to download mail (maild option?) (modified 0 times) jukebox
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One thing I don't understand, original Audrey mail did always fetch the mail for me when checking. The same goes for phMail. What mail client are you using?

jukebox

http://www.prins.net/audrey/index.html
04-24-2002 13:44:34

RE:I want mail checking to download mail (maild option?)RE:I want mail checking to download mail (maild option?) (modified 0 times) bungee
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I'm using the original Audrey mail connected to a earthlink account via pop

I will admit that I only ever tried the out of the box mail client, and have not checked since I updated to UpdateWithShellPlus image.

I'll check again tonight and post results here tomorrow.

thanks for the reply!

04-24-2002 14:35:55

RE:I want mail checking to download mail (maild option?)RE:I want mail checking to download mail (maild option?) (modified 0 times) jukebox
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One addition to this. Audrey's mail did fetch the mail for me but by default it left the mail on the server and my PC got the same mail again, a feature I was quite happy with. However I've read a post here too telling you how mail can delete your email from the server. Change a 0 in a 1 or vice versa in a file in /config I believe.

jukebox

http://www.prins.net/audrey/index.html
04-24-2002 15:25:18

Doh! must have been fixed in the update!Doh! must have been fixed in the update! (modified 0 times) bungee
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I checked again last night and indeed now when it checks for mail it does indeed download it - whether I'm using my Dialup or ethernet connection. so everything is sweet! thanks jukebox for making me look one more time, this is a much better solution!

I'm pretty sure I did see the behaviour I mentioned (just checking and not downloading) but that was right out of the box with no updates, I guess that was fixed in some of the updates (or I was mistaken)

this thread mentioned similar behaviour
http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=3Com_Audrey&Post=1056

Even though my problem is now solved, I sure can see a need for fetchmail and a lightweigt fallback mta program to deliver the mail - that was you could do IMAP and other more secure mail fetching. I'm real close to getting fetchmail compiled (just need dn_skipname, which was thinking of just stubbing) so if anyone needs it get in touch.

thanks again jukebox, you saved me a bunch of work!

Alex

04-25-2002 14:11:06

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