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lakeith79
09-24-2007, 11:13 AM
Im looking for a way to automate the fetch process. Works great for what Im trying to accomplish, I just dont want to have to login to horde and click the button.

Anyone have any ideas? Cron job? I dont know the commands etc I'd have to type.
Early Out
09-24-2007, 12:13 PM
Perhaps I'm not understanding what you're trying to do, but you do understand, don't you, that you can use any email client program to retrieve your BH email? Set up Outlook, for example, and it can check for new mail every few minutes. That's what those kinds of programs are designed to do.
xzolian
09-25-2007, 12:49 PM
Perhaps I'm not understanding what you're trying to do, but you do understand, don't you, that you can use any email client program to retrieve your BH email? Set up Outlook, for example, and it can check for new mail every few minutes. That's what those kinds of programs are designed to do.

I believe he is trying to grab mail from other POP accounts. Sort of like what http://fusemail.com does. It fuses email from many accounts into one account.
redsox9
09-25-2007, 01:58 PM
I don't see anything in cPanel - my guess is that you need a mail client to do this (either Horde or SquirrelMail, as you already know). Of course, if you use a Windows-based program like Outlook, you can accomplish the same thing.
KenJackson
09-27-2007, 07:20 AM
I don't know if it's applicable, but it seems like fetchmail (http://fetchmail.berlios.de/) should be mentioned in this context.

I use it on my GNU/Linux PC at home to fetch all my incoming mail from several email accounts and feed them to the mail server (on my PC) so I get an icon on my desktop saying I have mail. My email client only fetches locally.

You probably cannot run fetchmail as a daemon on a BlueHost server, but I think you can run it as a cron job, as you suggested.
mrfrostee
10-26-2007, 09:39 AM
... You probably cannot run fetchmail as a daemon on a BlueHost server, but I think you can run it as a cron job, as you suggested.

Has anyone successfully done this?

I asked Bluehost Support if fetchmail was OK, and they said yes as long as it does not require root access. However, when I run it it times out with socket errors.

I tried the similar Getmail program with the same results: "socket error ((110, 'Connection timed out'))".

It looks almost like a firewall is blocking the connection.