Wiki advice on running getmail on INBOX access - how does that work?

[c128 mail]

 > What exactly did happen?

Oh, yeah, didn't make that clear ;-)

Nothing happened...not without coaxing.

If I forced a change to the directory, then it worked - but there 
wouldn't be a change to the directory in normal operation, other than by 
mail population?

On 18/10/14 19:28, Gedalya wrote:
> On 10/18/2014 01:24 PM, c128 mail wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently running getmail in a cron job every 2 minutes, so I was
>> quite intrigued by this on the wiki:
>>
>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/TriggerGetmailOnIMAPAccess
>>
>> Thing is - I couldn't see how it would work and, when I tried it, it
>> didn't work (at least not for me).
> What exactly did happen?
>
>>
>> It details using incrontab to monitor /home/username/.maildir/cur in
>> order to trigger getmail.
>>
>> However, "cur" won't change unless populated with mail...as an initial
>> result of actually running getmail?  Seems like a chicken and egg
>> situation.
> access != change
>
>>
>> I reckon I'm missing something fundamental :-), but what is it?
>>
>> Ta.
>