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Sorry, I don't know much about fetchmail.

-Jim P.

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 17:25 -0500, Jay Loden wrote:
> Ok, I have a couple cron jobs that run quite often.  Is there some way to get 
> this NOT to mail my mailbox every time it completes? I really, really, really 
> don't want my mailbox chock full of "job completed" emails. 
> 
> Also, does anyone know how to get fetchmail to check an account every five 
> minutes and dump the mail to my mailbox?  I have a pop3 account that I'm 
> using fetchmail to download the mail from, put it in my server, and give me 
> imap access to (easier for me to access and manage as imap).
> 
> Unfortunately, the -d command on fetchmail didnt seem to work.  Right now as a 
> hack I have a cronjob running every five minutes to run this: 
> 
> fetchmail -v -f '/home/jay/.fetchmailrc' pop.mailserver.com
> 
> when I added fetchmail -v -d 150 -f '/home/jay/.fetchmailrc' pop.toughguy.net
> it didnt collect my mail.  According to the man page, -d means run in daemon 
> mode and check mail every n seconds.  What did i miss? 
> 
> -Jay
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