Using the cron-job based fetchmail is certainly much more efficient than set it to 'Manual'. Please refer to Webmaster Admin-> Profile page.
To set the cronjob, from your control panel click on 'Crontab Manager' for Plesk or 'Crontab'/'Cronjob' for CPanel or any link that have similar meaning. The sample screen I have here is using Plesk.
Cron job definition are split into Minutes, Hour, Day of the Month, Month, Day of Week and the command to execute. Entering '*' (asterisk) means all. If you want your mail to be fetched every 10 minutes, in the minutes field, set it as */10.
http://forum.socketmail.com/uploads/cronjob_plesk.jpg
To set the cronjob, from your control panel click on 'Crontab Manager' for Plesk or 'Crontab'/'Cronjob' for CPanel or any link that have similar meaning. The sample screen I have here is using Plesk.
Cron job definition are split into Minutes, Hour, Day of the Month, Month, Day of Week and the command to execute. Entering '*' (asterisk) means all. If you want your mail to be fetched every 10 minutes, in the minutes field, set it as */10.
http://forum.socketmail.com/uploads/cronjob_plesk.jpg
At the Command field, enter the following :
php -q /path/to/socketmailLite/system-files/pullpop3.php
And done. Really? Not really
Now, in the Webmaster Admin, for all the domains that the pop3 mail server is on the same server where the cron-job is running, need to set the mail server name to localhost instead of mail.svr.me. This is because the cron job is running in the system at background, and in some server their network or security settings dissallow the internal to call up their own local domains, but localhost is ok.
Your server using Qmail?
If your server is using Qmail, you need to specify a special flag in /system-files/pullpop3.php
Open /system-files/pullpop3.php file and find the following statement (around line #23):
define('__QMAIL__', 0);
change the value zero (0) to 1 to indicate that your server is using Qmail. Example :
define('__QMAIL__', 1);
Save the file.
