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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:06:22
Message-Id: 871vm1f3wn.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?" by Ward Poelmans
1 Ward Poelmans <wpoely86@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
4 >>
5 >> When using the line:
6 >>
7 >>    @ 5 fetchmail -a
8 >>
9 >> nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded
10 >> with
11 >>
12 >>    fetchmail -a
13 >>
14 >> from the commandline.
15 >>
16 >> May be I am a little overhacked today...but what the hack I am doing
17 >> wrong here?
18 >
19 > Are you sure the cron job runs? Check the logs. Or try adding:
20 > */5 * * * * fetchmail -a
21 > in your cron file.
22
23 Another way to go at it might be to use fetchmails' built in daemon
24 mode (fetchmail -d INTERVAL). And forget about cron.

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