fetchmail question

Hi!

What is default fetching time for fetchmail and is it running
automatically for each user that has .fetcmailrc file in their home
directory?

Regards,
Sasa

Sasa Stupar wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi!
>
> What is default fetching time for fetchmail and is it running
> automatically for each user that has .fetcmailrc file in their home
> directory?
>[/color]

Fetchmail doesn't run automatically. If you want it to run
automatically, put a line like this in your crontab file:

# every hour on top of the hour
0 * * * * fetchmail

You still need your .fetchmailrc file in your home directory though.
Each user would need this entry in their crontab file.

- Dom

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 15:01:34 -0400, Dom thoughtfully wrote:
[color=blue]
> Sasa Stupar wrote:[color=green]
>> Hi!
>>
>> What is default fetching time for fetchmail and is it running
>> automatically for each user that has .fetcmailrc file in their home
>> directory?
>>[/color]
>
> Fetchmail doesn't run automatically. If you want it to run
> automatically, put a line like this in your crontab file:
>
> # every hour on top of the hour
> 0 * * * * fetchmail
>
> You still need your .fetchmailrc file in your home directory though.
> Each user would need this entry in their crontab file.
>
> - Dom[/color]

Not true you can set fetchmail to retrieve mail using:
# time every hr in seconds
set daemon 1800


Set fetchmail for global operations, man fetchmail for specifics.