On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:13, Mental Patient wrote: > duck wrote: > > > > Alternatively you could bind the f12 key to fetchmail as I have: > > macro index <f12> "!fetchmail\n" > > > > fetchmailconf is working fine in sid (used it yesterday). > > > > For running fetchmail periodically I am using gnome's inbox monitor > > applet (execute fetchmail before each update). I prefer not to use the > > daemon method (/etc/fetchmailrc) as this method allows running fetchmail > > manually without becoming root. crontab is good too (crontab -u). > > > > > > You dont need to be root to run fetchmail as a daemon. Use the -d > parameter when you start fetchmail and supply a time interval. It'll run > in the background as you and poll mail every N seconds. When I used > fetchmail, I would have it start in the background when I logged in.
I tried doing that too. But with the applet/crontab method I can check my mail on demand without messing around with SIGUSR1. So I went with that instead. I suppose you could do a script of some sort but I'm too lazy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
