Re: [Sheflug] Fetchmailconf

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 07:14:12AM +0100, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Hello everyone again,
> 
> I'm trying not to be dim, but... what is "poll
> interval"?  Re: fetchmailconf.

	Thou shalt read the man page :):
DESCRIPTION
       fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding  utility;  it
       fetches  mail  from  remote mailservers and forwards it to
       your local (client) machine's delivery  system.   You  can
       then  handle  the  retrieved  mail  using normal mail user
       agents such as elm(1) or Mail(1).  The  fetchmail  utility
       can be run in a daemon mode to repeatedly poll one or more
       systems at a specified interval.
(...)
       The  --daemon  <interval>  or  -d  <interval>  option runs
       fetchmail in daemon mode.   You  must  specify  a  numeric
       argument which is a polling interval in seconds.

       In  daemon  mode,  fetchmail puts itself in background and
       runs forever, querying each specified host and then sleep­
       ing for the given polling interval.

       Simply invoking

              fetchmail -d 900

       will,  therefore,  poll  all  the  hosts described in your
       ~/.fetchmailrc file (except those explicitly excluded with
       the `skip' verb) once every fifteen minutes.


	That should clarify things :)
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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