Re: how to let fetchmail's output shown in minibar?

[Zhenqing Li]

anhnmncb <anhnmncb@gmail.com> writes:

> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>
>> Fetching them in the background with fetchmail doesn't force you to read
>> them.  And if you don't use any fancy notification mechanism, fetching
>> them in the background will just make it faster for Gnus to fetch them
>> in /var/mai/anhmncb
>>
> How to fetch them in the background? Do you mean I throw
> fetchmail into crontab to let it run every some time?
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
>   anhnmncb
>  gpg key: 44A31344

You can modify your ~/.fetchmailrc and include these into the beginning:

set daemon 60

And start the fetchmail script in the initial boot time (put it into 
/etc/init.d )


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