On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:42:54 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > Sorry, but running fetchmail as a daemon is the worst possible way to > run fetchmail. > > Run it as a cronjob as a job as your user. It will work. You just need > to setup your .fetchmailrc properly. > > ANYTIME I've run fetchmail as a system daemon it dies sooner or later. > Usually sooner. Or even better yet it stalls. never more to retrieve > mail. > > I've always setup fetchmail to run as a cronjob every 10-30 minutes > depending on you tastes. Any more often than 10 minutes runs the risk of > colliding with another previous instance. I use getmail, which is not even designed to run as a daemon. From the FAQ: > How do I run getmail in "daemon" mode? > > Use your system's cron utility to run getmail periodically if you wish to > have mail retrieved automatically at intervals. This is precisely what > cron is designed to do; there's no need to add special code to getmail to > do this. > > With a reasonably standard system cron utility, a crontab(5) entry like > the following will make getmail retrieve mail every hour: > > 0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/getmail --quiet Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
