I also use mutt (not right now obviously) in concert with fetchmail and
procmail. Works beautifully.
-Charlie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Wolfgang Bornath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Experts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Any mutt users?
>
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>
> :)Hi,
> :)
> :)I know, in times of kmail et al it is hard to find any old fashioned
> :)geeks with text based MUAs ;-) (Met some at LinuxTag in
Stuttgart/Germany
> :)though).
> :)
> :)My Q: I set up mutt on a standalone box. So I just compiled it with pop
> :)option to gather my mail from my pop account by pressing 'G'.
> :)Now that my box is running permanently with ADSL I wanted to change
> :)Muttrc so that mutt gathers mail every 13 minutes.
> :)Option in Muttrc should be 'set mail_check=15' but it doesn't work.
> :)Can anyone point me into the right direction and push?
> :)
> :)wobo
> :)(This mail option is another means to keep up the connection, better
than
> :)an unproductive ping.)
> :)
>
> I use pine. Very versatile. Why not use "fetchmail" to get your mail?
> "fetchmail --daemon <seconds>" or "fetchmail -s <seconds>" will start
> up the process as a background daemon and check for your mail every
> time period that you specify". You can also run as "nohup fetchmail -d
<secs>"
>
> --
> -=[cwa]=-
> Linux-Mandrake 8.0
>
>
>
