Command line check gmail

[Serg B.]

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On 02/04/07, Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am going to be moving home (in a while) and may be without net connection
> for anything up to 6 months. I don't want to lose my gmail account and
> thought I'd ask for ideas.
>
> 1. Is there any way I can setup a cron to send a short email from my account?
> (say I send it to my own account to - just to ping gmail and fake my
> activity)
> 2. Is just sending the odd email (say every 30 days) enough to keep the gmail
> account alive? Do I have to recieve (read) mail too?
>
> My brother-in-law is renting a virtual server and it runs Debian (I think) -
> so I would ssh into that and setup the cron on that machine so that it keeps
> the gmail account alive.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> /d
>
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