Changeset f684538

Timestamp:

10/28/2019 06:19:12 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 9.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

091706d

Parents:

a353c3a

Message:

fetchmail: explain that it can be run in daemon mode or from a cron job.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@22318 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• networking/mailnews/fetchmail.xml (modified) (1 diff)

networking/mailnews/fetchmail.xml

@@ -174 +174 @@
       quick examples. There are countless other configuration options once you
       get used to it.</para>
+
+      <para>If you expect to receive very little mail you can invoke fetchmail
+      when you wish to receive any incoming mail. More commonly, it is either
+      invoked in daemon mode with the <literal>-d</literal> option either on the
+      command line, or in <filename>.fetchmailrc</filename> (see 'DAEMON MODE'
+      in man fetchmailconf), or alternatively it is invoked from a cron job.</para>
 
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