Where can i find a fetchmail how-to

coolamit78 · 01-11-2004, 01:22 PM

Hi everyone...

I want to know how can i make fetchmail run in daemon mode? I just know to fetch mail from the pop3/server using the fetchmail -v command, however, I would like fetchmail to query the server every n minutes for new mails....how do i do that? and If someone can direct me to a detailed how-to on fetchmail as well as how-to on procmail, i'll be highly thankful....and by the way, is fetchmail an MDA or MUA ??? on what basis do we say that its an MDA or MUA?

Regards,

amit

acid_kewpie · 01-11-2004, 02:10 PM

this is very clearly detailed in the man page for fetchmail

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=133725

Quote:

DAEMON MODE

The --daemon <interval> or -d <interval> option runs fetchmail in dae-
mon mode. You must specify a numeric argument which is a polling
interval in seconds.

In daemon mode, fetchmail puts itself in background and runs forever,
querying each specified host and then sleeping for the given polling
interval.

Simply invoking

fetchmail -d 900

will, therefore, poll all the hosts described in your ~/.fetchmailrc
file (except those explicitly excluded with the `skip' verb) once every
fifteen minutes.