Setting up Mailbox Checking
To retrieve e-mail from mailboxes and create tasks from them, you need to set up mailbox checking on your desired schedule.
Using CRON on a UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X server you can set up a CRON job to load the check_mailboxes.php page every 15 minutes to retrieve e-mails and create tasks from them. On windows, I know you can schedule a task to do the same thing - someone tell me how and I'll add it here.
The your-password below is the 'Password for CRON Jobs' in your Server Settings.
Here is the syntax for 2 ways to retrieve messages every 15 minutes using CRON.
This way should be most compatible:
*/15 * * * * wget -q --delete-after http://www.example.com/tasks/check_mailboxes.php?password=your-password
Mac OS X users may need to use 'curl' instead of 'wget'.
*/15 * * * * curl http://www.example.com/tasks/check_mailboxes.php?password=your-password
This way should work fine as long as you have lynx installed:
*/15 * * * * lynx -source http://www.example.com/tasks/check_mailboxes.php?password=your-password
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