Mail by default checks all pop servers every 5 minutes. Yoou can of
course change this, but if you're only looking to pull the mail into
your local inbox, then just leave mail running and it will do it. On
the other hand, if you're looking to grab multiple accounts, and drop
them into /var/spool/mail, and then use local accounts to retrieve
mail from your box using your box as a server, then you'll need to
use something like fetchpop (the program you were talking about) or
simply set your domain (if you have one) to dump mail on your box (if
you have a static ip) Otherwise, I don't know what you want. If
these suggestions don't answer your question, then be more specific
as to what you're trying to do, and perhaps I can elaborate more.
You can run a mac server, which does support mail. but again, it
depends on what you're trying to do.
On Feb 19, 2006, at 10:47 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Folks, I got to thinking and yes nothing good comes of me thinking.
In any case, when I was running my Linux box, I used a program
called Fetchmail which would poll a mail server/servers and dump
mail into /var/spool/mail. Now I haven't been able to locate any
info that covers how mail works in great detail, but what I was
curious is if it would be possible to use a program like fetchmail,
have it pull mail down from a server and Mail make use of it. I
suspect Mail wouldn't do this very easily as it seems it either
imports mail from /var/spool/mail or such directory or Mail simply
pops the server itself and the mail is placed into the mail
directory in the local user's home folder.
Anyone have some insight into how Mail works? Is it possible to run
Mail as a cron job and have it pickup mail that way?
tnx
Scott
