On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:39:21PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > Then, just replace the "respawn" with "once." Didn't know that was allowed, I'll give it a try. > Another method is to put > your fetchmail startup in your .profile. > It's a good idea, but it assumes that I'll be logging in right after doing a reboot, which I won't always be doing. Also, if I have it in my .profile, that means that fetchmail will run every time I log in. Since my machine will be getting my mail when it is up, there is no point getting mail from my backup mail exchangers every time I login. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Greg