problem starting fetchmail as a daemon from an xterm

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

I'm trying to do something simple:

xterm -e fetchmail -a --syslog -d 600 -v

After the xterm exits, so does the fetchmail.  If I run this same command
w/o the "xterm -e", it works great.  Also, if I run with -N, it works (except
the xterm is still there, which is not what I want).

I looked in the FAQ & could find nothing about this.

Operating system: Linux 2.0.32
Compiler: gcc 2.8.1
SMTP listener: qmail 1.0

I've been running fetchmail fine for months and I just wanted to have it
always get started when I start X-windows.

Thanks.