Wonderful Info About How To Start Fetchmail
The fetchmailconf launcher allows you to run fetchmail by clicking on the run fetchmail button (see the section on sending and receiving from a remote server).
How to start fetchmail. If you are using fedora core/cent os linux, type the command: First, configure fetchmail with appropriate polling interval and batch size settings 1. It is possible to start the fetchmailconf program for setup (this program demands started x server).
This is not very convenient for. But i can't get fm to start at boot. Root@ubuntu:/# sudo /etc/init.d/fetchmail start * starting mail retriever agent:
The simplest thing to do is to use ubuntu's package manager to install fetchmail. If you are using ubuntu. If you want to use imap with the same provider instead:
If you are using debian linux, type the command: In that case fetchmail writes a lock file named.fetchmail.pid that is located in your home directory. Confirm that the polling interval is configured in the ~/.fetchmailrc by the line daemon 600.
Description=fetchmail after=syslog.target after=network.target [service] type=simple user=<<strong>fetchmail</strong> user> group=<<strong>fetchmail</strong> group> execstart=<path_to_<strong>fetchmail</strong>>. Fetchmail running as daemon enable daemon in config file /etc/default/fetchmail by changing the following line to: #cat /etc/fetchmailrc set pidfile=/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid poll localhost protocol pop3 username username password xxx systemctl start fetchmail.service.
I've added a line to rc.local: Do you run fetchmail as you normal user? Here's a real newbie question;