From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 1:30:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hostel8.kiuca.kiev.ua (host.kiuca.gu.net [194.93.181.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8DB37B515 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:29:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from qd@hostel8.kiuca.kiev.ua) Received: (from qd@localhost) by hostel8.kiuca.kiev.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA35034 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:28:11 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from qd) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:28:10 +0300 From: Valery Zamarayev To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail question Message-ID: <20000427112810.A35022@inetgate.avt> References: <39079EA7.3E57A535@cs-dsl-130.datawest.net> <20000426193424.H489@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000426193424.H489@fw.wintelcom.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 07:34:24PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Mark [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