Run fetchmail at login under MacOSX

Question

I'm using MacOSX and I'm trying to migrate to mutt and fetchmail because Mail.app started giving me several issues.

My configuration sits on~/.fetchmailrcand I launch the daemon issuing fetchmail -d 600. I tried to write a launchd file to handle the task at login, but doesn't work, here's the plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>org.atma.fetchmail</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
      <string>/opt/local/bin/fetchmail</string>
      <string>-f /Users/atma/.fetchmailrc</string>
      <string>-d 600</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
    <key>UserName</key>
  <string>atma</string>
    </dict>
</plist>

I think the problem is the user env variables. Tried using a wrapper bust still nothing. I have another plist provided by MacPorts which ignites a global configuration file located in /opt/local/etc/.fetchmailrc. But I'm afraid that using a global configuration might mess my current setup.

Any way I can adjust he above plist to run successfully?

regards

Answer 1

Try splitting the ProgamArguments furter down. AFAIK there has to be NO unescaped whitespace inside the single Strings.