Hi Duke, > Can `movemail' be run as a daemon like `fetchmail'?
No, it cannot. You can run it as a cronjob, if the need be. > I know that `mailutils' has `imap4d', but I don't grok exactly what > it does behind the scene. Imap4d is in certain sense on the other side of the fence -- it is a server program designed to serve mail to the clients, whereas movemail is a client program, i.e. a program run by a client to retrieve his mail from the server (such as imap4d). > - poll imap server at regular intervals to check for mail > - if mail is present, run `movemail' from emacs (or from my CLI) You can either run movemail as a cronjob, as I mentioned above, or, if you want to run it from Emacs, use the run-with-timer function (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Timers.html) to run it periodically. Regards, Sergey
