fetching queued mail

[seth creature]

yes... you're correct, fetchmail will run asa demon with the -d option and I
believe the -k option to kill it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <tward1978 at earthlink.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: fetching queued mail


> Hi, Greg. I'm no expert on this subject, but I believe fetchmail has the
> ability to be run as a demon which can periodocly  fetchmail.
> I was recently thinking of trying this out on my RH 9 box for grabbing
> mail, and you might want to look into that angle.
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I recently switched over to using daemon tools with qmail to start it
up, which is now the recommended way of doing so.
> >
> > It runs in /etc/inittab. This however, poses a problem since I fetch
queued mail for my domain in /etc/rc.d/rc.local under slackware, and that
seems to run before my qmail starts up in /etc/inittab.
> >
> > This means that I need to run fetchmail by hand after logging in. As
long as I'm here, that's all right I guess. However, it would be good to
automate the process once more, especially if there might be somebody here
rebooting my machine when I'm away, and if that person is not familiar with
GNU/Linux.
> >
> > Does anybody have any advice?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
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