Re: WooHoo! Courier-Imap is imapping away! (fetchmail config)

[Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:17:45PM -0500, BruceG wrote:
> 
> Think I got it. Shoulda read a little more before asking.
> My ~/.fetchmailrc looks like:
> poll mail.bellsouth.net protocol pop3 user (me) password (mypass)
> 
> Then crontab looks like:
> 0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/sbin/fetchmail

This is mostly ok, but : 
- fetchmail is in /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin
- any output will be mailed to you, so you probably want

0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

or (something that might be clearer)

*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

Frank


> I think it'll work. I typed in fetchmail from the command line and it used
> my .fetchmailrc properly, so hoping crontab is good. (my first cron, oh
> boy!)
> 
> 

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