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: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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