On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:46 +0200, Joel Louis Blom wrote: > Ron, > Why cron? Fetchmail has a perfect timing mechanism itself.
Personal preference. By using cron to execute a shell script to run fetchmail, I'm able to do: if [ -e /tmp/.backup.LOCK ]; then exit 0; fi Thus, one can "pause" fetchmail without having to use su or sudo to stop the daemon. > However, this doesn't solve his problem as he wants to look at the > headers and discard messages he doesn't want (I presume). > Only with imap is it possible to look at the headers and discard the > unwanted mail (from the server). I guess OP needs to be a bit more specific about what he wants. > Joep > > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 01:57, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 08:17 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote: > > > If I have a large # of new emails, I'd like to start reading the new > > > headers before they're all downloaded. Is this possible ? > > > > No. The work-around is to use something like fetchmail and cron > > to retrieve mail from POP on a regular basis throughout the day. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace." Bernard M Baruch
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
