Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup
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On 03/23/07 14:35, Celejar wrote:
> 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?
Do you use a wrench to drive a nail? You could, but it's Not The
Right Tool.
>
> Celejar
>
>
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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