On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:49:00PM -0500, BruceG wrote: > Okay - how do I put it in crontab? I tested, and can get my pop e-mail using > the following command: > fetchmail mail.bellsouth.net --protocol pop3 --username (myusername) > > I ran this logged on as me, and it goes into my directory - which is what I > want it to do. My localusername is different than my name at the ISP. I also > had to manually enter my password. What is the command I should have in my > fetchmail command string? I'm pretty sure what you want in this case is to put all the info (server, protocol, username, passwd) into your ~/.fetchmailrc file so that you can retrieve your mail by calling fetchmail with no command-line parameters. The exact syntax to use in .fetchmailrc is described in the manpage. Then, check out crontab (and man crontab, naturally) for setting up a cron job to periodically run fetchmail. All this should be done as your regular user. Cheers! -- ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | I care less and less what people think. < > Please do not | - Ani DiFranco < > reply off-list. | < `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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