Re: fetchmail at login
You may benefit from also checking out getmail. It's simpler, cleaner and may be less prone to dropping mail (a fact advertised by
the author of getmail). I find it works really well, particularly when combined with wmbiff. Wmbiff can be set up to execute getmail
whenever its polling detects mail arriving at the server. Since I live in X this works better for me than starting it at login time.
I also like that it's written in Python, and therefore theoretically easy to modify.
Good luck,
Steve Cooper
Colin Cashman wrote:
> > > I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my
> > > account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the
> > > program?
> >
> > You could add the command to your .bashrc file, it will be executed
> > after you login.
>
> Might be better to add it to his .bash_profile, unless he's got .bash_profile set up to read .bashrc (which, I believe, is not the
> default in Debian).
>
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