RE: pop login scripts?

Nathan,

Just saw this on freshmeat.net and thought it might be a [partial] solution to your problem. If so, let me know because I have a similar problem at the personal level - I just haven't had time to let it work its way to the top of the queue.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/getmail/?branch_id=51706&release_id=192346

-Ben

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Nathan England
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: pop login scripts?

Unfortunately, I only control my mail server inside the company. What we want
to accomplish is having our mail server get mail from outside sources. Some
of the employees want their cybertrails email, others want earthlink...

(don't ask they why's please... I'm as irritated about this as you might be
just thinking about it, but as the IT guy, I'm forced to do this, and _make_
it work!)

I have all the employees who want external mail pulled in setup in a fetchmail
job that runs about every tens minutes. There's not a whole lot of people
involved in this, only about 15. The problem is, some of them get mail to
the outside account and then can't get it from our systems for apx: 10
minutes...
So I'm looking for a way, instead of having a rotating fetchmail that keeps
running every so many minutes, something that will recognize when they 'pop'
in and check their external mail.
This has to be automated. When I introduced squirrelmail, most of these people
panicked! because it didn't say Microsoft or Outlook anywhere. And the
thought of these guys setting up their own fetchmail lists just scares me...

It doesn't matter how complicated it is on my part, but the end users can't
notice any difference.

nathan

On Thursday 31 March 2005 07:31, Patrick Fleming, EA wrote:
> Nathan England wrote:
> > I need to have a mail server run a script when a user logs in. Anyone
> > know how to do this? Or any specific pop server that can handle this?
> > Basically, I have external clients connecting to a machine to check
> > their mail from that machine. But everyone is complaining about my
> > using fetchmail. I have it set to fetch the mail every 5 minutes. But
> > some clients are complaining that that is too long. So I am wondering
> > if there is a way for the system to fetch their mail when the pop is
> > accessed. ??
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