> Running featchmail as a daemon works well for me. I have the account > info recorded in my .fetchmailrc file, and then when I first boot my > machine I just run "fetchmail -d300" and enter the password for my email > account before I start up Mutt.
Nathan, this seems to be the best solution for me. I'm running fetchmail as daemon now, and so far it seems to work. I'm getting new messages in mutt, but not any fetchmail reports. But I do have a question. I started fetchmail daemon: $ fetchmail fetchmail: background fetchmail at 19841 awakened. but see that I already have /etc/default/fetchmail (I'm running debian), which means fetchmail will start automatically on boot. However, won't fetchmail then be run by root and not see the "set daemon 900" statement in ~/.fetchmailrc? So will fetchmail fail to start in daemon mode for user? If so, I wonder if I can also list fetchmail in ~/.fluxbox/init? Haines
