On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 16:09 +0100, Steve Williams wrote: > > Quoting Chris Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello, > > Does anybody know if it is possible to have Imp act more as a frontend for > > fetchmail? > > What I'm trying to do is set it up so that fetchmail will be run every > > minute or 2, without having to log in to imp. This is so that any other > > imap client can be used and still have the mail retrieved from the remote > > servers. > > > > I'm thinking it would be useful to have the module upload a .fetchmailrc > > file to the user's home directory, and just run fetchmail from cron. > > > > Would this be possible? > > > > Chris, > > Edit your: > > /etc/init.d/network > or > /etc/init.d/networking > > (depending on distribution), and add: > > fetchmail -d 300 -f /etc/.fetchmailrc > > to that script. This will execute fetchmail with the settings defined > in /etc/.fetchmailrc every 300 seconds. > > That is how I have been running fetchmail for the past 8 years, and > I've never had a problem. > > Good luck, > Steve
Thanks for the tip, but I don't have any problem running fetchmail. I've run it in daemon mode for quite some time now myself with a central /etc/fetchmailrc file. What I am looking for is a web frontend for users to generate their own .fetchmailrc files. Chris -- IMP mailing list - Join the hunt: http://horde.org/bounties/#imp Frequently Asked Questions: http://horde.org/faq/ To unsubscribe, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
