Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:13:30 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

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> On 03/23/07 09:07, judd@wadsworth.org wrote:
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> >      Thanks, that's exactly what I want to do.  I sometimes access my
> > home email while at work via the web interface, and if my wife or kids
> > are at home using the computer, fetchmail may download and delete it.
> > Or I could download it at night and not have time to respond.  I know
> > that I could set fetchmail to not delete the messages and do it
> > manually from the web interface, but I'd rather not do it that way.
> > 
> >      I hadn't seen a way to do this delayed deletion easily with
> > fetchmail, although I may not have looked thoroughly.
> 
> Install Apache-ssl, Squirrelmail and imap-ssl.
> 
> No, really.  POP, being the Post Office Protocol, is not designed to
> do what you want it to do.  (You don't go to your PO box every hour
> hours to *read* your mail, putting the open mail back in the PO box,
> do you?)

But if getmail can do it, what's the problem?

Celejar