Greetings Dougie, On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:34:56 Dougie sat down and exclaimed to [email protected]:
> At the moment I run fetchmail with > > OPTIONS="--daemon 3600 --syslog" > > in /etc/default/fetchmailrc. This works fine but I don't really need it > checking mail overnight, making unecessary calls to my ISP. Is there a > way that I could configure it to be a bit more specific about the times > it checks? > Your best bet would likely be to run it as a cron job. > I'm experimenting whether I can start fetchmail in background mode, but > without a checking interval. If this is possible, perhaps I can set up a > cron job that will run fetchmail hourly between, say, 9 to 5, which > causes the background fetchmail to wake up and check the mail, and do > nothing overnight. > Cron would allow you to run fetchmail at eg. 5 min past the hour from 9 to 5 (9 - 17), and then shut off over night. Mind you I'm doing this over a DSL, so I don't know whether you would have to call a ppp app first. > Dougie C. Masters
