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

[William Xu]

Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> writes:

>> How to fetch them in the background? Do you mean I throw fetchmail
>> into crontab to let it run every some time?
>
> No, fetchmail is *designed* to be run in the background ; you just have
> to configure the default interval it will use between fetching
> operations.

Are there many differences between: 

1. fetchmail -d $interval
2. a cron job running `fetchmail' every $interval

? 

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William

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