Fetchmail annoyance

[Gregory Nowak]

I wouldn't recommend the set daemon option if you're on dial-up.
Greg


On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:11:50PM -0400, 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.
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