Cron job to use fetchmail every hour

[estado3]

Can someone clarify for me the command to use fetchmail as a cron job every hour?

[Modorf]

first, you probably don't want to cron fetchmail, but you could.
Fetchmail has a daemon option that takes a value in seconds it should wait before rechecking for mail.

set daemon 3600 # once an hour

If you really want to use cron, I would configure my .fetchmailrc to not run as daemon and make sure it working first.

then as the user you want to fetchmail for run: crontab -e

like any other cron job
# m h dom mon dow command
5 * * * * /usr/X11R6/bin/fetchmail >/dev/null 2>&1
# fetchmail once an hour at the 5.

[estado3]

Should have mentioned I am using cpanel to do this cronjob

so far I have tried various combinations, fetchmail is part of Horde in cpanel, and I have setup the mailboxes to retrieve the mail from and the remote mail as my yahoo email address:

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -f /DEFAULTBOX/.fetchmailrc -L /var/log/fetchmail.log