OT - How does most people accomplish mail downloads

[Steve Campbell]

I apologize for the OT, but I see where a lot of people use MailScanner to 
scan mail they get from their ISP to a home computer. How do most people set 
the download from their ISP to their local sendmail/postfix/MTA? The 
scanning part is not the problem once I get it into sendmail, but is this a 
scheduled interval task and what is used?

I'm just drawing a blank here.

Thanks

Steve Campbell
campbell at cnpapers.com
Charleston Newspapers