Norbert Schmidt wrote at 1:02 AM (+0100) on 3/13/08:

>Now consider the following situation: I'm on the phone with someone and
>he tells me that he sent me an email with some data to talk about. If I
>can't poll the mail manually we may have to wait maybe 10 minutes until
>it is fetched automatically. What should I tell him? "Sorry, I can't
>fetch my mail manually, I'll call you back in 10 minutes or we could
>discuss the weather while we're waiting ..." sounds pretty lame.

So how about a simple web interface with a button that will instigate a
run of the fetchmail?

Or a frequent (per-minute) cron job that looks at the atime of your
maildir, and does same?

-b

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Ben Kennedy (chief magician)
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http://www.zygoat.ca



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