Re: simply mutt (Re: Mutt with evolution)
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:13, Mental Patient wrote:
> duck wrote:
> >
> > Alternatively you could bind the f12 key to fetchmail as I have:
> > macro index <f12> "!fetchmail\n"
> >
> > fetchmailconf is working fine in sid (used it yesterday).
> >
> > For running fetchmail periodically I am using gnome's inbox monitor
> > applet (execute fetchmail before each update). I prefer not to use the
> > daemon method (/etc/fetchmailrc) as this method allows running fetchmail
> > manually without becoming root. crontab is good too (crontab -u).
> >
> >
>
> You dont need to be root to run fetchmail as a daemon. Use the -d
> parameter when you start fetchmail and supply a time interval. It'll run
> in the background as you and poll mail every N seconds. When I used
> fetchmail, I would have it start in the background when I logged in.
I tried doing that too. But with the applet/crontab method I can check
my mail on demand without messing around with SIGUSR1. So I went with
that instead. I suppose you could do a script of some sort but I'm too
lazy.
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