Fetchmail and DSL link

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:42:54AM +0100, Cristiano Paris wrote:
> scoon wrote:
> 
> >Hey there, 
> >
> >Check man fetchmail or here http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
> > 
> >
> I've checked both the man page and URL you mentioned but didn't find 
> anything about the fetchmail and resolvconf interaction...
> 

You might try editing the script to remove the resolvconf part and see
if it works that way:

#if [ -x /etc/init.d/fetchmail -a ! -x /sbin/resolvconf ]; then
#        /etc/init.d/fetchmail start

if [ -x /etc/init.d/fetchmail -a ]; then
        /etc/init.d/fetchmail start

I don't see any inherent reason why fetchmail would be messed up by
resolvconf (my DSL uses bridging rather than PPP, so I can't run any
tests).  Basically what you want the script to do is disable fetchmail
unless you have an internet connection.

Bob