On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > fetchmail may be used to check (or fetch) email on the mail server that > uses POP, IMAP and other protocols. I once played with fetchmail and > found it not configurable enough, however you may add missing > functionality by scripting. > > Add one line to ~/.fetchmailrc like: > > skip mail.your-server.com proto imap username uday_p password your_passwd > > Then execute: > > fetchmail -c mail.your-server.com > fetchmail -c -r mail/FVWM mail.your-server.com > fetchmail -c -r mail/Other-Mail-Folder mail.your-server.com > > As I said, you need some parsing of the output to actually tell whether > there is an email in one of the folders, it outputs: > > 1623 messages (1621 seen) for uday_p at your-server.com (folder mail/FVWM).
Thanks a lot for this. I'll get this working. Sorry for the delayed reply I was travelling. Uday > > Regards, > Mikhael. > -- Thanks Uday -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
