On Wed, 12 May 2004 10:36:36 -0700, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Yeah.. That's what I thought.. How do I set fetchmail to poll the server
>say every 2 minutes? (I really got to find that out.. Now, I'm just
>thinking of setting crontab entry to pull it every 2 min
> (0-59/2 * * * * fetchmymail.sh)
>
The typical list response is "man fetchmail". <grin> However, it's really
easy.
1. Create .fetchmailrc in your home directory. I use the very verbose
format.
$ more .fetchmailrc
poll mypopserver.com proto pop3
user "account1", with password xxxxx, is "steve" here nokeep;
user "acciunt2", with password xxxxxx, is "steve" here nokeep;
2. Run fetchmail from cron
*/2 * * * * fetchmail -q
or run in it daemon mode
fetchmail -q -d 120
(or add the daemon command in .fetchmailrc)
I prefer the cron mode because fetchmail will always run. If the daemon dies,
then you're SOL.
--
Steve
