Thanks Chris. That sounds like a plan.
Mark
Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket.
Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants
don't have any pockets in them.
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Necrotica wrote:
> Yes. You can set up fetchmail to run as a cron job, which will fetch your mail
> at a specified interval (which is nice if you telnet into your machine from a
> remote location to check your mail).
>
> If you just want to check in when you're logged in locally under X there are
> numerous ways to do it. KDE has an applet, but I forget what its called (I use
> Gnome). Gnome has a mail check applet that you can add to your taskbar. You can
> also run gkrellm (a very nice system monitor) to fetch it for you too.
>
> I have mine set up as a cron job. Create a .fetchmailrc in your normal user's
> home directory that will fetch mail from all your accounts, then set up a cron
> job to run as that user at a specifed interval. I get lots of mail so my
> interval is 4 minutes. Works great...
>
> -Chris
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > I'm curious about something. Is it possible to get fetchmail to
> > automatically check your pop3 server and fetch the mail on the server when
> > one boots up and Xwindows starts? I'm finding that programs like Pine and
> > fetchmail are so much faster and efficient than the GUI based programs at
> > taking care of most e-mail.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket.
> > Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants
> > don't have any pockets in them.
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Everett wrote:
> >
> > > To those who helped THANKS!
> > > I found the problem.
> > > When I installed mandrake 7.0 it did not install procmail.
> > > I installed procmail and all is fine.
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> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Everette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:40 PM
> > > Subject: [newbie] About to give up.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello again
> > > >
> > > > I'm going to try this one last time before I give up.
> > > > A few months back I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams
> > > > one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine.
> > > > A few weeks ago I downloaded and installed mandrake 7.0 I did a
> > > > complete install doing away with every thing I setup in 6.1 includeing
> > > > qpopper.
> > > > Well it looked like every thing setup OK so I reinstalled qpopper but it
> > > > want work now in fact I tried some other mail server software and can't
> > > > get any of thm to work.
> > > > When I use telnet it logs onto the mail server fine and tells me I have
> > > > 0 massages, my mail client software logs in fine but tell's me I have no
> > > > new massages this afther I have sent about 20 or 30 test mail to it.
> > > >
> > > > Please if any one has any idea what's going on please let me know I am
> > > > about to give up.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
>
