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

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:

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

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.