begin quote On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:32:33 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Well, I think I'll take this moment to push a piece of documentation I wrote a while ago: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spider/local-mail-0.2.1/local-email.html I think that this may be close to the setup you run, Jason, and would prove the answer to Scott's question as well. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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