I already have the set daemon line in my .fetchmailrc file, but it was still writing all kinds of incoming junk to my screen each time I got a message. The biff n command seems to have solved the problem, though. ~Ann On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Buddy Brannan wrote: > Definitely use biff n. > > However, I believe the question was about fetchmail. > > Put a line like this in your .fetchmailrc or /etc/fetchmailrc > set daemon 300 > > That will tell fetchmail to check your mail every 5 minutes (300 > seconds) and you'll never see it. > > Course, I spose you could always say > fetchmail [arguments here] > /dev/null && > and then you'd only see error messages. >
