These are scripts to help you running fetchmail in special situations. Note: you're on your own using these -- I don't really understand them, I'm just passing them along. --esr maildaemon: Larry Fahnoe wrote this for driving fetchmail from cron. It may be useful if you want to force a PPP link up and then poll for mail at specified times. I have rearranged it slightly to make it easier to configure. novell: Some mail from Dan Newcombe describing how to write a procmail rule that will domainify Novell server names. login & logout: These are intended to help if you typically have multiple logins active. Here's the script composer's original README: Please find attached 2 files, ~/.bash_login & ~/.bash_logout What these do is try to keep track of WHO is the process/tty that ran fetchmail in daemon mode. I tried to use the bash Variable PPID, but when using xterm the PPID is set to the xterm's pid not the bash shell's pid so.... They have been lightly tested. Any comments... Hth, JimL <babydr@nwrain.net> ip-up: A note from James Stevens about using fetchmail in an ip-up script without disabling timeouts. runfetchmail: A shellscript front end for fetchmail that mails you various statistics on the downloaded mail and the state of your folders. A good example of what you can do with your own front end. fetchspool: If you find that the speed of forwarding to port 25 is limited by the SMTP listener's speed, it may make sense to locally spool all the mail first and feed it to sendmail after you hang up the network link. This UNTESTED shellscript aims to do exactly that. It would be smarter to figure out why sendmail is slow, however. fetchsetup: This is a shell script for creating a $HOME/.fetchmailrc file, it will ask you some questions and based on your answers it will create a .fetchmailrc file, fetchsetup is linux specific so it may not work on another operating system. start_dynamic_ppp: An admittedly scratchy ip-up script that Ryan Murray wrote to cope with dynamic PPP addressing. Will need some customizing.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.