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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1997-04-16 20:29:43 +0000
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<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
-$Id: fetchmail-FAQ.html,v 1.2 1997/04/16 20:09:34 esr Exp $<p>
+$Id: fetchmail-FAQ.html,v 1.3 1997/04/16 20:29:43 esr Exp $<p>
-(Added <a href="http:#C6">C6</a> on working with qmail)<p>
+(Added <a href="http:#C6">C6</a> on working with qmail and
+<a href="http:#C7">C7</a> on managing fetchmail in the presence of
+multiple login sessions.)<p>
Before reporting any bug, please read <a href="#G3">G3</a> for advice
on how to include diagnostic information that will get your bug fixed
@@ -53,6 +55,8 @@ and is a SmartList reflector; sign up in the usual way. <p>
<a href="#C4">C4. How can I get fetchmail to work with ssh?</a><br>
<a href="#C5">C5. How can I set up support for sendmail's anti-spam 571 response?</a><br>
<a href="#C6">C6. How can I use fetchmail multidrop mode with qmail?</a><br>
+<a href="#C7">C7. How can I do automatic startup/shutdown of fetchmail
+when I may have multiple login sessions going?</a><br>
<h1>Runtime fatal errors:</h1>
@@ -616,6 +620,15 @@ Or you may not be connecting to the SMTP listener. Run fetchmail -v
and see the next question.<p>
<hr>
+<h2><a name="C7">C7. How can I do automatic startup/shutdown of fetchmail
+when I may have multiple login sessions going?</h2>
+
+In the contrib subdirectory of the fetchmail distribution there is
+some shell code you can add yo your .bash_login and .bash_logout
+profiles that will accomplish this. Thank James Laferriere
+&lt;babydr@nwrain.net&gt; for it.<p>
+
+<hr>
<h2>R2. Fetchmail isn't working, and -v shows `SMTP connect failed' messages.</a></h2>
Fetchmail is working, but your SMTP port 25 listener is down or inaccessible.