Please help me automate getmail with cron

[cssgalactic]

Can someone show me how to use cron to run getmail every 5 minutes? I did it without errors but it does not work.

cssgalactic

[Carpetsmoker]

to edit your crontab use:
% crontab -e

An entry that runs every 5 minutes would look something like:

*/5     *       *       *      *      /usr/local/bin/getmail

See crontab(5)

I did it without errors but it does not work.

If it doesn't work then there is an error somewhere ... Otherwise it would work
It might also help to tell us what exactly you did, so we can locate the error...

[TerryP]

bare in mind that by default the output of a cronjobs command should get mailed to the user that owns it, pardoning the usual MAILTO rules noted in the manual page.