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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:26:39 -0700
From:      "Ben Hyatt" <benjaminhyatt@hotmail.com>
To:        "Tony Wells" <awells@journalstar.com>, "Francois Kritzinger" <ffkrz@iafrica.com>
Cc:        "freeBSD Mailing List" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: PINE -> checking for email
Message-ID:  <OE63nccYTjr8cU6xfPT00004c2e@hotmail.com>
References:  <3AE71B0E.9AD109EA@iafrica.com> <3AE7309F.4BF0791A@journalstar.com>

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> I used fetchmail, which is available in the mail section of ports to
> do this for awhile.  I tried to find native POP support in Pine and
> couldn't.  If I remember correctly you can run fetchmail on a cron and
> have it dump the mail to your local directory periodically.

Yup - fetchmail is a nice tool.

create a .fetchmailrc with the following:
poll yourpop3serverhere protocol pop3, user your_username password
your_password is your_local_account here

Then write a quick shell script that cron can call.

#!/bin/sh

/usr/local/bin/fetchmail -v -k > /dev/null 2>&1 &

-Ben

> Francois Kritzinger wrote:


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