RE: [Sheflug] Fetchmailconf

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

Hello Paul

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Paul Sims wrote:

> If you have an open pipe to the net you can get fetchmail to look for mail 
> at specified intervals; this is known as "polling" for mail, the polling 
> interval is simply the time between polls. eg a poll interval of 30m gets 
> fetchmail to poll for mail every half hour. An interval of 0 simply means 
> it will only look for mail when you manually tell it to i.e. by running 
> "fetchmail" at the prompt, and is fine for the average dial-up user. make 
> sure you run "sendmail -q" to deliver the mail into your mailbox when it's 
> downloaded.

When it's downloaded?  Just my little joke. 

Thanks

Harvey


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