On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:14:45PM +0530, Dushyanth Harinath wrote:
>
> * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote from a remote bunker :
> > I just shifted to Debian (no X) from RH.
> >
> > I'm using fetchmail to download my mail from various boxes. How
> > do I know when fetchmail has finished checking all the
> > mail-boxes, so that I can disconnect?
>
> You can wrap it in a shell script.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> fetchmail
> killall wvdial or whatever
>
Is that essential? I have been using fetchmail all the time. Unless run
as a daemon, it just puts the ouput on the console. As Ajay seems to be
a dialup user, I do not think that he will be running fetchmail in
daemon mode.
Regards,
--
Sridhar M.A.
Housework can kill you if done right.
-- Erma Bombeck
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