[Users] Is it possible to automatically fetch mails in background?

[Johan Vromans]

On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 19:11:38 -0300
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:

> > I want to fetch mails every X minutes in background, without making
> > claws-mail GUI visible.
> > 
> > I found --receive-all parameter but I see no way to run claws-mail in
> > headless mode (or at least keep GUI hidden).  
> 
> For X = 30, add a line 
> 30 * * * * /usr/bin/claws-mail --receive-all
> to your crontab.

This will run once per hour, at the 30 minutes mark.

  */2 * * * * /usr/bin/claws-mail --receive-all

will run twice per hour on most modern *ix systems.

-- Johan
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