I wouldn't recommend the set daemon option if you're on dial-up. Greg On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:11:50PM -0400, 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. > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV/3 | And if the ground yawned, > Phone: (814) 455-7333 | I'd step to the side and say, > Email: davros at ycardz.com | "Hey ground! I'm nobody's lunch!" > | --Eddie From Ohio > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup