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[moseley@xxxxxxxx (Bill Moseley)]

I don't have fetchmail setup yet, and would like to do so soon:

My setup is typical:

- pop3 account at my ISP
- dialup connection from the SuSE box
- a 192.168.x.x local network (Win98 pc)

The goal is to have the SuSE box act as my SMTP and POP3 servers for the
PC.  I still read & write email on the PC.

I've got outgoing mail PC -> SuSE sendmail -> my ISP SMTP (smarthost) setup
just fine.

Now I'm starting the setup of fetchmail.  My question:

I'd like fetchmail to poll every few minutes while on line, but, say every
60 minutes when off line.  I think I can use the fetchmail's -M option to
prevent fetchmail's polling from timing out the dialup connection.

What I'm unclear on is how to make fetchmail automatically (the important
word here) to poll at different rates.  Can I simply set fetchmail to poll
every few minutes, use the -M option to allow the dialup to timeout, and
then use cron to wake it up every hour?

If anyone is using this type of setup I'd enjoy seeing an example setup!

Thanks,

Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley@xxxxxxxx


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