[LUG]

["Ray Smith" <rayjsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have set up fetchmail and pine as a quick alternative to evoultion or
kmail running in the background.

It seems to be running fairly weel apart from a couple of niggles.

in my fetmailrc if have my pass and uth and set it to chmod 600 to prevent
read or write access and have set a daemon to check evey couple of minutes.

this all works fine.

according to the man page a setting of -k should keep messages on the
server.

I want to do this because I don't want to download messages into pine that
might contain attatchments.
I check these seperatlly I use a different client. I am running an icon in
gnome to alert me in gnome that indicate me when mail arrives
checking /var/spool/mail/"homedir"

problem is if I add the -k option to the fetcmail rc file along

poll 'server' -k 'user' ####### 'pass' ####

I get a 'parse error' unknow option for the -k switch. Checking the option
gives this at the switch for keeping messages on the sever.

I use to check manually and seem to remeber that this was the way I used it
before but it was some time ago & I have used evolution sinced.

As I have a daemon running in the background if I try running fetchmail
directly with the option in the command line it says I cant run it with
switches while in daemon mode.

Any pointer would be great please.

Also how do I shut the daemon down before logging out ? Can't see the
reference in the man page. Wood for the trees perhaps ?

Ray.

BTW.

Sorry for the M$ here. had the check the bank & work email this morning.
neither of which are very galeon/mozilla ect,etc freindly !


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