Re: checking pop mail in the background

2000-03-01 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Bevan Broun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > fetchmail doesn't require that either (I'm not sure if you were implying > > that it did, or not). And it can also be configured to use an > > ssh-tunnel for the pop-retrieval. > > Yes I did think fetchmail required a local smtp, glad Im wrong. I > might giv

Re: checking pop mail in the background

2000-02-29 Thread Bevan Broun
on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:18:31AM +0200, Mikko Hänninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fetchmail doesn't require that either (I'm not sure if you were implying > that it did, or not). And it can also be configured to use an > ssh-tunnel for the pop-retrieval. Yes I did think fetchmail required a

Re: checking pop mail in the background

2000-02-29 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Bevan Broun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 01 Mar 2000: > Im using a perl program called pop_perl5, which doesnt require > sendmail running on the local machine and has a daemon mode. I make an > ssh tunnel first: fetchmail doesn't require that either (I'm not sure if you were implying that it

Re: checking pop mail in the background

2000-02-29 Thread Bevan Broun
on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:21:51PM +0200, Mikko Hänninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Breton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 29 Feb 2000: > > There are a few solutions I can think of and I'm wondering if anyone > > could advise me on which one might be best, or hopefully suggest a > > better

Re: checking pop mail in the background

2000-02-29 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Jim Breton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 29 Feb 2000: > There are a few solutions I can think of and I'm wondering if anyone > could advise me on which one might be best, or hopefully suggest a > better one. First of all, I'd recommend the approach to getting fetchmail. In the daemon mode, i

Re: checking pop mail in the background

2000-02-29 Thread Jon Walthour
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 01:25:09AM -0500, Jim Breton wrote: > Any other ideas? Is there any way to bind a key directly to a shell > command, or do I have to use the ! function? Yes, I use fetchmail. It works very nicely in the background (when daemon mode is enabled), will fetch from multiple ma