From "man fetchmail":
DAEMON MODE
The --daemon or -d option runs fetchmail in daemon mode. You
must specify a
numeric argument which is a polling interval in seconds.
In daemon mode, fetchmail puts itself in background and runs
forever, query�
ing each specified host and then sleeping for the given polling
interval.
Simply invoking
fetchmail -d 900
will, therefore, poll all the hosts described in your
~/.fetchmailrc file
(except those explicitly excluded with the `skip' verb) once
every fifteen
minutes.
It is possible to set a polling interval in your ~/.fetchmailrc
file by say�
ing `set daemon <interval>', where <interval> is an integer
number of sec�
onds. If you do this, fetchmail will always start in daemon
mode unless you
override it with the command-line option --daemon 0 or -d0.
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> "Michael H. Collins" wrote:
> >
> > My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for
> > checking in fetchmail itself.
>
> How does one accomplish this?
> --
> Mark
>
> I love my Linux box...
> My Linux Box ROCKS!
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