email module - automatic check / biff

[Nuno Zimas]

There should be a way to automatically check / biff email messages from remote server every X time.
Wondering if the PHP file currently performing that task could be called from a simple cronjob running in the background.

Thanks,
Nuno.

[koko]

Hi,

May it be possible you missed something in the administration part? There is a part "Cronjobs", no?

[Nuno Zimas]

Hi,

May it be possible you missed something in the administration part? There is a part "Cronjobs", no?

I did, in deed

There's a setting under Cron Events to check mail messages.
Gonna try it out,

Thanks.

[koko]

I think the cron-mail-check doesn't seem to work very well .. No idea how this comes ... Can you tell me if yours does work well?

[Nuno Zimas]

Was about to report on that.
Nope. In my case, enabling email checks doesn't work at all
Probably a system cronjob has to be set. I just don't know which file to execute.

[koko]

Hi,

Indeed, a system-cron is needed.
More info:
http://wiki.opengoo.org/doku.php/administration_panel#cron_events

[Nuno Zimas]

Hi,

Indeed, a system-cron is needed.
More info:
http://wiki.opengoo.org/doku.php/administration_panel#cron_events

I have tweaked my crontab to run cron.php every 5 minutes.
Fetching email messages still fails at random, though it is working as it should most of the time.
Thanks for the URL!