Re: How to access mailserver
On Jul 15, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Detailed questions are:
> 1) How can I fetch my mails from the mailserver periodically,
> say each 5 Minutes) and store them as local mail.
> I thought fetchmail would do the job but it seems to
> fetch mails only on user demand, right??
> I would like to get the mails from the server sended as
> mail and want the mails sended be deleted on the server.
Fetchmail can, that's how I run it.. fetching mail from my 3 accounts
every 5 minutes.
In .fetchmailrc you can put
set daemon <seconds>
and then when you run fetchmail it will go into the background and
poll every <seconds> seconds. Or you can run it from the command line
like:
fetchmail -d 500 <other opts>
and that will do the same thing.
man fetchmail, search for 'daemon mode'.
> 2) I wonder how far mailagent is better than procmail for
> that purpose, because it tells that it has
> "far more functionality than procmail" in the package
> description.
Hmm, no idea. I've only used procmail (with much success, I might add).
>
> 3) Are there any specials things to do or any special documents
> to read to solve that problem?
ISTR that there are a few HOWTO's or Linux Gazette articles on this.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
Cheers, James
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