I believe fetchmail has a daemon mode that will run in the background for
you. I think this has also been discussed on this list serve before.
man fetchmail
DAEMON MODE
The --daemon <interval> or -d <interval> option runs fetchmail in dae-
mon mode. You must specify a numeric argument which is a polling
interval in seconds.
In daemon mode, fetchmail puts itself in background and runs forever,
querying each specified host and then sleeping for the given polling
interval.
Simply invoking
fetchmail -d 900
Jeff Painter
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I have set up fetchmail with procmail and spamassassin to filter out the spam,
> but could use a little help or some pointers in setting up fetchmail to run
> as a cron (or similar) job so that I do not need to manually run it.
>
> This is the fetchmail command that I am using:
> fetchmail -av -m "/usr/bin/procmail"
>
> thanks
> - --
> Z
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