Re: How to automate email retrieval

[vp@example.com (Viktor Pavlenko)]

>>Yup.  Do something like `fetchmail -d 120'.
>
>I've gotten fetchmail to work as a daemon, but I don't think this means it 
>gets restarted when the machine reboots or keep going when you logout or 
>even that it restarts itself it it dies for some reason.

To have it run at boot time, add fetchmail -d 120 in rc.local
Also to have it restarted when it dies, add it to the init table (/etc/inittab)
with respawn option.

Hope this helps.

Viktor