* It was Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 08:22:38PM -0500 when Patrick Shanahan said: > * Sami Samhuri <sami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [07-14-04 18:57]: > > > > If fetchmail is running all on it's own then you have a poorly > > configured fetchmail. If I removed my cron job that runs fetchmail it > > would never run at all. > > > > Not exactly trying to say Don't Do That Then, but maybe fetchmail _can_ > > do what you would like it to. > > You need to read about fetchmail. You may run it as a deamon, which > most people with permanent internet connections do, and have a > keystroke initiate fetchmail to attempt mail download at *that* time > rather than the period that the deamon is following. [...] No, I have read enough about fetchmail for me to use it how I want to. I prefer running a cron job rather than fetchmail's daemon. My point was that you don't have to run it in daemon mode. In retrospect I didn't make that entirely clear. -- Sami Samhuri
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