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Simon Thompson wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know how/if it is possible to only download mail based on
> a header such as the From: field?
>
> poll pop3.demon.co.uk protocol SDPS username simon@tyrant password xxx
> 
> Any ideas?
You'll need to use procmail (in addition to fetchmail and sendmail which
you already have) to filter the mail on the conditions that you specify.
See the procmail man page for more information on this.

To dial in periorically just use cron to schedule a job to dial in (say)
every hour to connect to the internet and run fetchmail. Then schedule a
job about 5 minutes later to disconnect you from the internet (Demon
disconnects you automatically if you are idle for too long but it's best
to disconnect explicitly just in case they suddenly change their policy
on this - or someone starts pinging you!). For more information on cron
see the crontab man page.


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David Hallowell - <david.hallowell@ukuug.org>
UKUUG Linux '99 Conference 25-26th June 1999
Info and bookings: http://www.linux.ukuug.org/linux99/