Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup
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.
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> 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
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