Re: fetchmail: daemon or cron job?

From: Nick E. (nicke_at_flyingpigs.com)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 12:10:38 GMT

Hactar wrote:

>> That's how I do it. Run a script called by a crontab that does other
>> stuff and runs fetchmail every N minutes.
>
> Me too. I also have mine check for a file (created by xautolock when it
> kicks off the screen saver), and doesn't fetch mail if it finds it.

ah. that's a good idea actually.

thanks.

-john 

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