Re: [SLE] Email Auto-Download Daemon?

From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 12/27/03

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    The Friday 2003-12-26 at 17:40 -0500, James Kuzdrall wrote:

    > Quick summary: When kppp makes connection with my ISP, some
    > background program downloads the email and puts it in
    > /var/spool/mail/...
    > How do I defeat this automatic download? I want the mail to
    > download to ~/Mail/inbox/cur only when I request it through kmail.

    If file "/etc/fetchmailrc" exists and is configured, then script
    "/etc/ppp/poll.tcpip" (which is automatically started on every
    modem connection going up) will run fetchmail.

    You might have set this up inadvertently using yast to set up mail.

    > around December 2. There are no other problems. By his admission,
    > there was some "exploring" while I wasn't there, but neither of us can
    > figure out what he (or possibly I) may have done.

    Ah, I think I know :-)

    > Any advice on which config file must be modified? Better yet, what
    > was improperly specified in kmail, kppp, YaST install, or control
    > center?

    Yast has the option to define mail servers. I simply disabled
    "/etc/ppp/poll.tcpip", because I use my own "/etc/ppp/ip-up.local" script
    instead. 

    -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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