On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:49:00PM -0500, BruceG wrote: > Okay - how do I put it in crontab? I tested, and can get my pop e-mail using > the following command: > fetchmail mail.bellsouth.net --protocol pop3 --username (myusername) > > I ran this logged on as me, and it goes into my directory - which is what I > want it to do. My localusername is different than my name at the ISP. I also > had to manually enter my password. What is the command I should have in my > fetchmail command string?
I'm pretty sure what you want in this case is to put all the info
(server, protocol, username, passwd) into your ~/.fetchmailrc file so
that you can retrieve your mail by calling fetchmail with no
command-line parameters.
The exact syntax to use in .fetchmailrc is described in the manpage.
Then, check out crontab (and man crontab, naturally) for setting up a
cron job to periodically run fetchmail.
All this should be done as your regular user.
Cheers!
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