On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 07:19:46 +0100, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >That would collect your mail every 12 minutes. Works for any user. I was, but I was trying to understand (1) how to use fetchmail in daemon mode and (2) how to restart fetchmail if the daemon had failed. Overall, it seems like less work to run it from cron and forget about the daemon features. -- Steve