From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 13:26:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe63.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.240.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3874637B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:26:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benjaminhyatt@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:26:49 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [139.87.90.77] Reply-To: "Ben Hyatt" From: "Ben Hyatt" To: "Tony Wells" , "Francois Kritzinger" Cc: "freeBSD Mailing List" References: <3AE71B0E.9AD109EA@iafrica.com> <3AE7309F.4BF0791A@journalstar.com> Subject: Re: PINE -> checking for email Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:26:39 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Apr 2001 20:26:49.0246 (UTC) FILETIME=[0E3CD3E0:01C0CDC6] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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