Christoph Maurer [mutt-users] <23/07/01 12:52 +0200>:
> Am Mon, 23 Jul 2001, schrieb Victor:
>
> > Now, I use fetchmail to fetch my mail then start mutt. I'd like
> > instead to use the command 'G' to start fetchmail from within mutt but
> > pressing G it tells me that I should define a POP. The problem is that
> > I have 6 POPs defined in .fetchmailrc.
>
> Mutt can handle one pop account itself without fetchmail, pressing G
> fetches mail from that pop account by default. Of course, you can
> override this setting.
>
> >
> > How can I configure .muttrc to take into account the all bunch of my
> > POPs?
> >
>
> You have to define a macro
> Something like this in your .muttrc should do
>
> macro index G "!/usr/bin/fetchmail" "fetchmail"
>
Thanks, my best option in view of the fact that I have a laptop
connected every day to my ISP for a few minutes....
Anyway what you suggest here in the following could be of interest for many.
Thanks again
> But you should think about some other possibilities to start
> fetchmail
> - fetchmail has a daemon mode, with fetchmail -d 300 e.g., you can
> force fetchmail to fetch mail every 300 seconds
> - you could start it using cron
> - if you do not want to start fetchmail periodically, but every
> time you go online, you could call fetchmail from your system's
> /etc/ppp/ip-up
>
> Christoph
>
>
>
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