From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 11:18:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09441 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay02.indigo.ie (relay02.indigo.ie [194.125.133.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA09321 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:18:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from relyod@indigo.ie) Received: (qmail 10962 messnum 46135 invoked from network[194.125.148.190/ts04-060.dublin.indigo.ie]); 9 Mar 1998 19:17:53 -0000 Received: from ts04-060.dublin.indigo.ie (HELO nt?dublin) (194.125.148.190) by relay02.indigo.ie (qp 10962) with SMTP; 9 Mar 1998 19:17:53 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980309162543.009847d0@pop.indigo.ie> X-Sender: relyod@pop.indigo.ie X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 16:25:43 +0000 To: Don From: Michael Doyle Subject: Re: fetchmailrc Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3503F779.33AE@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:06 09/03/1998 -0600, you wrote: >Would any one care to share their .fetchmailrc file? >I am using FBSD 2.2.2 and the fetchmail located on >the CD. My system runs user ppp and I wish to retrieve >pop3 mail several times a day. Here's my setup: In /etc/crontab --------------- # Fetchmail schedule -- added by Mike 26 Feb 98 0 8-18 * * 1-5 root /usr/local/bin/fetchmail In ~root/.fetchmailrc --------------------- # Configuration file for fetchmail # Fetchmail should get mail from the pop account at connect # and re-distribute it through the mailboxes on this computer poll pop.connect.ie proto pop3: user MYUSERNAME pass MYPASSWORD to * here ================ I run the CRON script as opposed to running fetchmail -dehatever so that fetchmail only checks during office hours (this reduces the number of calls, yet makes e-mail fairly responsive) Hope this helps <><=====================================================><> Michael Doyle phone: +353-1-661-0588 Network Administrator http://www.co-operation-north.ie/ Co-Operation North E-mail: relyod@co-operation-north.ie (0ffice) relyod@indigo.ie (Personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message