Yes. You can set up fetchmail to run as a cron job, which will fetch your mail
at a specified interval (which is nice if you telnet into your machine from a
remote location to check your mail).
If you just want to check in when you're logged in locally under X there are
numerous ways to do it. KDE has an applet, but I forget what its called (I use
Gnome). Gnome has a mail check applet that you can add to your taskbar. You can
also run gkrellm (a very nice system monitor) to fetch it for you too.
I have mine set up as a cron job. Create a .fetchmailrc in your normal user's
home directory that will fetch mail from all your accounts, then set up a cron
job to run as that user at a specifed interval. I get lots of mail so my
interval is 4 minutes. Works great...
-Chris
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> I'm curious about something. Is it possible to get fetchmail to
> automatically check your pop3 server and fetch the mail on the server when
> one boots up and Xwindows starts? I'm finding that programs like Pine and
> fetchmail are so much faster and efficient than the GUI based programs at
> taking care of most e-mail.
>
> Mark
>
> Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket.
> Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants
> don't have any pockets in them.
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Everett wrote:
>
> > To those who helped THANKS!
> > I found the problem.
> > When I installed mandrake 7.0 it did not install procmail.
> > I installed procmail and all is fine.
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Everette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:40 PM
> > Subject: [newbie] About to give up.
> >
> >
> > > Hello again
> > >
> > > I'm going to try this one last time before I give up.
> > > A few months back I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams
> > > one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine.
> > > A few weeks ago I downloaded and installed mandrake 7.0 I did a
> > > complete install doing away with every thing I setup in 6.1 includeing
> > > qpopper.
> > > Well it looked like every thing setup OK so I reinstalled qpopper but it
> > > want work now in fact I tried some other mail server software and can't
> > > get any of thm to work.
> > > When I use telnet it logs onto the mail server fine and tells me I have
> > > 0 massages, my mail client software logs in fine but tell's me I have no
> > > new massages this afther I have sent about 20 or 30 test mail to it.
> > >
> > > Please if any one has any idea what's going on please let me know I am
> > > about to give up.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> >
