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Fetchmail - How do i set it to check mail sooner than 15 min

addodge

Hello All,
I was wondering if there was a way to change Fetchmail to check a POP3 account sooner than 15 minutes?  I have it installed and working great on a 7.0 Final server but my clients are complaining that the mail does not come in fast enough.  On sbs 2003 I was able to create a task schedule that ran the check mail every 2-3 minutes and then the deliver mail every 5 and that works great.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Andy

Offline sognenovski

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Fetchmail - How do i set it to check mail sooner than 15 min
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2006, 10:06:35 AM »
Setup a cron job to run

/etc/./startmail

Works for me.

Steve

addodge

Fetchmail - How do i set it to check mail sooner than 15 min
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2006, 03:21:47 AM »
I installed Crontab and setup a schedule to run every 2 minutes for testing purpases. It did not seem to work though.  Is /etc/./startmail the path that i need to enter,  or is there more to it than that?

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Fetchmail - How do i set it to check mail sooner than 15 min
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2006, 06:09:57 AM »
Should work. Try from root

#/etc/./startmail

WillKemp

Fetchmail - How do i set it to check mail sooner than 15 min
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2006, 12:55:58 PM »
Quote from: "sognenovski"
/etc/./startmail

What's the point of the "./" in that path. /etc/startmail is the same (better).