Hey Joseph!

Am 31 Jul 16, Joseph Larsen schrieb an Joseph Larsen:

 JL>> Done. I'm a bity rusty with cron, though. Any idea how I would
 JL>> make a c entry to do this?

"man crontab" explains the syntax.

 JL> -- begin IMP-MAIL.CFG ---
 JL> Echo_Toss rem . > tossflag
 JL> Echo_Scan rem . > scanflag
 JL> -- end IMP-MAIL.CFG -----

 JL> -- begin imppoll.sh ---

 JL> #!/bin/bash
 JL> if [ -f /home/imp/imp/SCANFLAG ]
 JL> then
 JL> /home/imp/imp/poll.sh
rm /home/imp/imp/SCANFLAG      (or better place the rm flagfile into poll.sh)
 JL> fi
 JL> -- end imppoll.sh -----

 JL> Ran poll.sh ("imp-mail all" (pack scan and toss))
 JL> within DOSBox.

If you scan, toss and _pack_ then there is nothing left for hpt/lnx.

 JL>  Then ran imppoll.sh
 JL> And got this:
 JL>  03.18.24      exported:    0

 JL> Doesn't appear to work. :(

Because imp-mail did all the work.
Do not pack with imp-mail and leave that work to hpt/lnx.

Tschuess

Kai

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