I use mutt to get mail off a pop server: Use the -f option to specify mailbox and -e startup options, run the whole thing from the command line:
mutt -f pop://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ -e 'push somestrings' This will work but only if executed from a tty. If you are trying to do this from cron then you will have to assign stdin from some valid tty. Assigning a static tty works for me as long you quit out of mutt in the -e command. Previous advice on fetchmail is very valid. You would want to have a very good reason for doing the above. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sven Guckes Sent: Friday, 4 October 2002 07:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: configuring POP to retrieve mail periodically -> cron+fetchmail * Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-03 15:20]: > version 1.4. I am trying to configure mutt to see if it's useful. > I've got most things working ok, except I can't get mutt to > automatically get mail via POP3 every minute. wrong tool. -> man crontab + man fetchmail > mutt works fine when I press G to fetch mail. > But mutt won't go out and get mail by itself. feature. > Any help would be appreciated. Please cc me, > as I'm not on the mailling list. learn about the "lists" command then! (see sig) Sven -- Sven Guckes [EMAIL PROTECTED] use "lists address" when you are *not* subscribed use "subscribe address" when you *are* subscribed -> http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mutt/setup.html
