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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2002 20:46:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        Bryan Cassidy <bryanc2000@insightbb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fetchmail and Mutt
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209252046150.2917-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020925184817.A33990@insightbb.com>

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On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Bryan Cassidy wrote:

> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:48:17 -0500
> From: Bryan Cassidy <bryanc2000@insightbb.com>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Fetchmail and Mutt
> 
> I am using FreeBSD 4.6.2 on my system now. I am new to Unix/Linux but liking bsd alot. Anyways. I use fetchmail 5.9.13 and mutt 1.2.5.1i and I am using Fluxbox as my window manager. I want to know what can I add to my .fluxbox/menu config file to launch fetchmail right before it launches mutt or vice versa so I don't have to run fetchmail by hand each and everytime viewing my e-mails. This is what I have in my .fluxbox/menu configuration file now to launch mutt 
>  [exec] (Mutt) {Eterm -e mutt} Hope I gave enough information.
> 
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I put an entry in ~/.login to run fetchmail as a daemon:

[syborg@janeway syborg]$ cat .login 
fetchmail -d 300

HTH - JB

#  John Bleichert 
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