[ale] cron mail messages

[Jason Day]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 05:25:55PM -0500, Jay Loden wrote:
> when I added fetchmail -v -d 150 -f '/home/jay/.fetchmailrc' pop.toughguy.net
> it didnt collect my mail.  According to the man page, -d means run in daemon 
> mode and check mail every n seconds.  What did i miss? 

What do you have in your .fetchmailrc file?  Rather than specifying your
pop host on the command line, I would recommend putting it in your
.fetchmailrc, like:

---
poll pop.toughguy.net  proto pop3
    user "popuser" with pass "password" is "localuser" here fetchall
---

Then you can test your configuration with fetchmail -v (add up to 2 more
-v's to get more verbose output).  Once that's working, you can run
"fetchmail -d 150".

HTH,
Jason
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