Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:28:10 +0300 From: Valery Zamarayev <qd@hostel8.kiuca.kiev.ua> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail question Message-ID: <20000427112810.A35022@inetgate.avt> In-Reply-To: <20000426193424.H489@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <39079EA7.3E57A535@cs-dsl-130.datawest.net> <20000426193424.H489@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 07:34:24PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Mark <mark@cs-dsl-130.datawest.net> [000426 19:31] wrote: > > Could someone explain the dizzying array of options outlined in the man > > pages? > > > > Situation: > > I run my on mail server on my dsl connection. > > My isp email account gets occasional email that I would like to get and > > bring it to my local user account. I thought fetchmail would do the job. > > > > In a nutshell, I want to run fetchmail from my rc.conf file so it runs > > all the time, checks for mail every hour, and delivers it to my mailbox > > so all my mail is in one mailbox. > > > > Help? Other options? > > I would use the cron utility to run fetchmail every hour, see > the manpages for cron and crontab. Cron allows one to schedule > jobs to be executed periodically. I want to add. Fetchmail has a daemon mode, it runs then in background and periodically polls mailservers. Howerver, I like the variant with cron more, as well as you. -- Valery Zamarayev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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