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fetch e-mail on the e-smith only once or twice a day

gschwarz

fetch e-mail on the e-smith only once or twice a day
« on: August 15, 2004, 08:34:21 PM »
High,
where I may find a solution to retrieve the email via POP3 from the ISP's mailserver only once or twice a day ?
The pulldown menue just allows "every 5 minutes" "15 minutes" "30 minutes" "every hour" and "every two hours" as option in the email retrieval page.
regards
Gerald

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fetch e-mail on the e-smith only once or twice a day
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2004, 02:16:24 AM »
edit /home/e-smith/configuration(back it up first)
find fetchmail line - "fetchmail=service|FreqOffice|every5min|FreqOutside|every30min|FreqWeekend|never|Method|standard|Secon"

I don't use an external email so mine is set to the deafult of every5min  - I believe yours would read every2hours or similar - maintain the same format though.

Try changing the 'every5min' to something else ! Am only guessing, but it should work i suspect.

Nigel Todd
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