Babu Kalakrishnan saw fit to inform LI that:
>> Run it in daemon mode / put it in ip-up.local as fetchmail&
>See this e-mail msg to ESR. ( From the file "ip-up" in the contrib
>directory of fetchmail source distribution )
Yep, I know - and pointed it out in an earlier mail to doc pavri. I
personally prefer to run fetchmail manually once every ten minutes or so
when I am online. In my office, I read an imap folder using mutt's imap
checking features. Unfortunately, the imap folder is an exchange server,
and mutt's imap handling features leave a bit to be desired ...
I've been bugging the local sysad to shift my mailbox to the solaris
machine (where his mailbox is). He says "tomorrow" - let's see :)
>this down to the fact that the "pppd" masks a wide range of signals and
>this means a time-out does not kick in. As I run the "ip-up" script in
>"bash" this masking is inheritied by "fetchmail".
That's right - I found it out the hard way - by experience :) My pop3
server suddenly died and I didn't have _any_ idea till I ran ps aux and
saw what was going on ...
I took fetchmail out of ip-up.local right then and there.
However, the solution I mentioned was the "simple and basic but
works" variety :)
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but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
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