Fetchmail annoyance

[Ann Tate]

I already have the set daemon line in my  .fetchmailrc file, but it was
still writing all kinds of incoming junk to my screen each time I got a
message. The biff n command seems to have solved  the problem, though.
~Ann



On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> Definitely use biff n.
>
> However, I believe the question was about fetchmail.
>
> Put a line like this in your .fetchmailrc or /etc/fetchmailrc
> set daemon 300
>
> That will tell fetchmail to check your mail every 5 minutes (300
> seconds) and you'll never see it.
>
> Course, I spose you could always say
> fetchmail [arguments here] > /dev/null &&
> and then you'd only see error messages.
>