[imp] Fwd: Re: Fetchmail auto-poll

[Steve Williams]

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     Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:08:57 +0100
     From: Steve Williams <steve at lasnobberia.net>
Reply-To: Steve Williams <steve at lasnobberia.net>
  Subject: Re: [imp] Fetchmail auto-poll
       To: Chris Warren <chris at dawgiestyle.com>

Quoting Chris Warren <chris at dawgiestyle.com>:

> Hello,
> Does anybody know if it is possible to have Imp act more as a frontend for
> fetchmail?
> What I'm trying to do is set it up so that fetchmail will be run every
> minute or 2, without having to log in to imp.  This is so that any other
> imap client can be used and still have the mail retrieved from the remote
> servers.
>
> I'm thinking it would be useful to have the module upload a .fetchmailrc
> file to the user's home directory, and just run fetchmail from cron.
>
> Would this be possible?
>

Chris,

Edit your:

/etc/init.d/network
or
/etc/init.d/networking

(depending on distribution), and add:

fetchmail -d 300 -f /etc/.fetchmailrc

to that script. This will execute fetchmail with the settings defined
in /etc/.fetchmailrc every 300 seconds.

That is how I have been running fetchmail for the past 8 years, and
I've never had a problem.

Good luck,
Steve


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