On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Bogdan Taru wrote:
-
- Hi all,
- I know that there has been a lot of talk lately about fetchmail in this
-mailing list recently. I am sorry I didn't paid much attention then...
- Anyway, this is my problem: I have a ethernet connection with a mail
-server (POP3) and I would like to retreive mail every now and then. My
-problems are:
-
-- should I run fetchmail as a daemon from a boot script and have a
-.fetchmailrc in my home directory or should I put a fetchmail command in
-my .profile?
-
-- How can I skip authentification? My account name on the server is 'bgd'
-and the passwd is 'my_pass' (can you believe that??? I DO trust you,
-guys...). The server name is 'deltanet.ro'. I'm currently using:
-
- fetchmail -p POP3 -d 120 -u bgd deltanet.ro
- | | | |
- mail server | | |
- | | |
- run as a daemon | |
- | |
- user name |
- mail server
- Please corect me if I'm wrong...
-
-What options should I use to skip giving the password every time fetchmail
-checks for new mail???
have a .fetchmailrc in your home dir like this:
poll deltanet.ro protocol pop3
user "bgd" pass "my_pass"
make it chmod 0600.
then in a boot script (rc.local) have a line:
/path/to/fetchmail -d 120
and it'll fetch your mail every 120 whatevers (is it seconds?).
and you don't even need to reboot (unlike certain other O/Ss) just type:
fetchmail -d 120
from the command prompt.
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