On Friday 22 August 2003 02:25, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: > > I never really have used cron but lately i have been trying to. I > > was trying to get it to check my email hourly by putting an entry > > into the cron.hourly directory. Well suffice to say it did not work. > > I'm just curious. Most email clients have a switch to check the email > every so often, and you can set it to any length you want. Of course, the > process has to be running. With cron it will start the email client to > perform the check then close it (I assume), so you don't have it running > all the time. With memory and swap space so cheap, though, I'd think that > would be the easy solution.
I think he's talking about using fetchmail like many people do. I hate having to wait for mail to download (especially when connected via dial-up) so use fetchmail with cron to do it in the background. When I open my mail client, I tell it to get mail from /var/spool/mail/jason and, presto, it's there. Even more importantly, I'm using spamassassin which is somewhat slow (again especially when connected via dial-up) so I don't have to wait for that either. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
