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Re: Fetchmail - setup question

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From: Martin
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 01:31

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Phill Edwards wrote:
[...]
> You don't have to run fetchmail form cron. In the fetchmailrc file you can
> make it run in daemon mode and tell it how often to poll the mail servers.
> Eg:
> 
>         set daemon 300
> 
> makes it run in daemon mode and poll every 5 minutes. No cron required.

If you run fetchmail as a service, eg: "service fetchmail start", then 
you must also edit the /etc/rc.d/init.d/fetchmail script to delete the 
"-d nn" on the command line there.

See "man fetchmail" about "-d".

Good luck,
Martin

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