On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:17:21PM -0500, johndmiller wrote:
> I have my Fetchmail running as a demon.  Start fetchmail -d 60 and
> fechmail will login and get your mail every 60 seconds.

A friend of mine told me about that too.  I don't know.

1. I don't like lots of daemons running
2. The UNIX way says cron is the periodic scheduler, let cron do that
   kind of work.  Fetchmail is just a mail fetcher, let fetchmail do
   that.

Nate