[fetchmail]howto trigger polling

[Tom Emerson]

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On Wednesday 29 September 2004 7:25 am, Downard wrote:
> What's the easiest way to trigger a fetchmail daemon to poll for new mail?
> [...] they laugh at me as I proceed to find fetchmail's pid and kill -HUP
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just typing "fetchmail" by itself, when there is a background daemon, will=
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send a HUP or USER1 signal -- I use this feature for things like when I've=
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just signed up to some webpage or mailing list and I don't want to wait 5=20
minutes to get and reply to the confirmation message.  [see the man pages=20
under "daemon mode" for full particulars]

alternatively you could use "killall" which takes a name of a process and d=
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the "fumbling about searching for pid's..." for you :)


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