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Best way to check mail messages frequently, but not constantly
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29th September 2015
IdOp
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Perhaps
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means checking for mail at a remote mail server?
I do this every 10 minutes using a shell script and cron. The script tries to determine if I'm online, and if so runs fetchmail(1) to check for and retrieve mail.
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