On Thursday 05 October 2006 07:41, Timothy Murphy wrote: > So I started running fetchmail as a cron job from each mail server. > This seems to work fine. > What puzzles me is that I never saw this suggested anywhere. > Am I missing some obvious alternative?
I suggest you will wait several minutes in either case. Side note: First, be sure you look carefully at the Kmail setup. Given free reign it will find every spam solution on your box and send the mail thru all of them. Set it to pick ONE, preferably SA, IMHO, and it will be faster. Fetchmail simply gets the mail in the background and hands it off to what ever you wish, such as procmail, or sendmail, etc. which in turn can call SA for you. But the time to process is the same, its just that you are not waiting for kmail to finish. Further, fetchmail is a daemon, and not intended to be run from a cronjob. Start it at boot, and leave it running. By the way, I use this method as well, on several sites where mail must be popped, and its pretty reliable. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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