Re: running fetchmail from mutt in the background

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2006-04-30 22:04:54, schrieb cga2000:
> I have bound the G key to the following command in my .muttrc:
> 
> "!fetchmail -v -k -m '/usr/bin/procmail -Yf- &'\n"
> 
> I was hoping that the '&' would cause this process to execute in the
> background but it seems that this is not working as I expected: 
> 
> fetchmail gives me some errors and apparently does not fetch anything.
> 
> I got rid of the '&' and everything works fine but I was wondering if
> there was any way I could run fetchmail on demand in the background.

Write a script

----8<--------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash

function()
{
  fetchmail -v -k -m "/usr/bin/procmail -Yf-"
}
function &
disown
----8<--------------------------------------------

then write a Macro which call

macro generic  <F2> "!THE_SCRIPT\n"

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack

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