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NAME

pickupd - Get new mails and add to queue

SYNOPSIS

Run from crontab:

00-59 * * * * /path/to/pickupd -s

Or in daemon mode:

/path/to/pickupd -D -t time_to_sleep

COMMAND LINE SWITCHES AND OPTIONS

Usage: pickupd [-v] [-n] {-D [-t time_to_sleep]|-s}
-D
Run the program in daemon mode.
-t
Time (in seconds) which we'll be sleeping
between each run. (only in deamon mode)
-s
Run once and exit.
-v
Give verbose error and info messages in logging
-n
Debug mode. Don't really move anything.

DESCRIPTION

pickupd finds new messages in $SPOOL/incoming and moves
them to $SPOOL/rewrite.

CONFIGURATION

Configuration is done in the script it self.
Thogh this is preferred to be changed in the Makefile,
this can be done in the script as well.

In the first lines of sendd you can configure the following variables:
PREFIX
pickupd's prefix path.

FILES

Message files in PREFIX/spool/incoming
These are the files that should be moved to the rewrite spool.

REQUIREMENTS

Perl 5
Maybe even Perl 5.6?
POSIX
Should be in the standard perl distribution.
Getopt:Std
Should be in the standard perl distribution.
File::Copy
Should be in the standard perl distribution.

VERSION

This is version 1.00

BUGS

None known as of this date :)

AUTHOR

Ask Solem Hoel <ask@unixmonks.net>, http://www.unixmonks.net

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