[ale] cron mail messages

[Jay Loden]

actually all I run now is "fetchmail -d 300" 

It's all in the fetchmailrc, not to fear :)

Thanks for the tip though

-Jay

On Monday 22 November 2004 02:10 pm, Jason Day wrote:
> 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