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Update wiki to change the fetchmail poll interval

Johan Smits 2017-10-05 08:30:23 +02:00
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Retrieve-emails-from-a-remote-mail-server-(using-builtin-fetchmail).md

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To enable the [fetchmail](http://www.fetchmail.info) service to retrieve e-mails set the environment variable `ENABLE_FETCHMAIL` to `1`. Your `docker-compose.yml` file should look like following snippet:
```
```yaml
...
environment:
- ENABLE_FETCHMAIL=1
- FETCHMAIL_POLL=300
...
```
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## Polling interval
By default the fetchmail service searches very 5 minutes for new mails on your external mail accounts. You can override this default value by adding this line to your `fetchmail.cf`.
By default the fetchmail service searches very 5 minutes for new mails on your external mail accounts. You can override this default value by changing the ENV variable `FETCHMAIL_POLL`.
```
set daemon 60
```yaml
- FETCHMAIL_POLL=60
```
You must specify a numeric argument which is a polling interval in seconds. The example above polls every minute for new mails.