Quick fetchmail.rc question...

[MeNeZ]

Hi,

I dont know linux and have been applying plasters on axewounds for some time now lol and have a quick question about the polling...

For some reason I now have to manually poll the server to fetch mail from POP (I havent changed anything so dont know what went wrong as it was doing its own thing for a while now.)

I've been looking online and I just wanna know, must I add an interval after each line/email account in the fetchmailrc file or is there a global daemon set I can add to poll the whole thing itself?? :wtf:

I found this for example:
set daemon [seconds]
set postmaster "squire"

I've made a backup before fiddling haha

 

[MeNeZ]

Can I put set daemon [seconds] at the top of the fetchmail.rc??

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Why not just download and install webmin?

It will make your life so much easier...

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Can I put set daemon [seconds] at the top of the fetchmail.rc??

I don't think so... [not sure... haven't tried it myself]

Why not try it and see what happens?

 

[MeNeZ]

Why not just download and install webmin?

It will make your life so much easier...

Never heard of that lol, sounds like more things to go wrong! hehe

 

[The_Unbeliever]

I have used webmin before, and it really makes things so much easier as you can do all the things from a web frontend (any compatible web browser).

 

[MeNeZ]

I have used webmin before, and it really makes things so much easier as you can do all the things from a web frontend (any compatible web browser).

Thats sounds great actually, Im busier than a one-legged river dancer at the moment so I'll look into that when I have time. I tried that interval thing in the meantime and reset the services. *holds thumbs*

 

[MeNeZ]

I don't think so... [not sure... haven't tried it myself]

Why not try it and see what happens?

It worked by the way *pats self on back*

Getting used to this whole linux thingy although its still like a whole new language to me at the moment haha.