* John Lalla
On 10 May, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Why don't you just run one instance of fetchmail and include the multiple accounts in your fetchmailrc. Seems like there would be considerable less system overhead and complexity. You *do* realize that this is plausible?
Unfortunately, all household members use the same pop server. I tried such a setup and it wouldn't work. Hence, cron, fetchmail and procmail all drawing on individual rc files.
If you know of a better way, please tell. Although, my present setup seems to be working with no hitches.
example .fetchmailrc: (this works, I use something similar set logfile "~/.procmail/fetchmail.log" set postmaster "your_mail" set bouncemail set spambounce set properties "v" set daemon 150 poll pop.centralr.cox.net with proto POP3 timeout 60 user 'user1' there with password 'passwd1' is '1user' here options fetchall stripcr mda '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -oem -f %F %T' antispam 571 550 501 554 user 'user2' there with password 'passwd2' is '2user' here options fetchall stripcr mda '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -oem -f %F %T' antispam 571 550 501 554 user 'user3' there with password 'passwd3' is '3user' here options fetchall stripcr mda '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -oem -f %F %T' antispam 571 550 501 554 user 'user4' there with password 'passwd4' is '4user' here options fetchall stripcr mda '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -oem -f %F %T' antispam 571 550 501 554 user 'user5' there with password 'passwd5' is '5user' here options fetchall stripcr mda '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -oem -f %F %T' antispam 571 550 501 554 poll imap.myrealbox.com with proto IMAP timeout 45 user 'user6' there with password 'passwd6' is '6user' here options fetchall stripcr ssl mda '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -oem -f %F %T' antispam 571 550 501 554 user 'user7' there with password 'passwd7' is '7user' here options fetchall stripcr ssl mda '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -oem -f %F %T' antispam 571 550 501 554 poll mail.messagingengine.com with proto IMAP timeout 45 user 'user8@fastmail.fm' there with password 'passwd8' is '8user' here options fetchall stripcr ssl mda '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -oem -f %F %T' antispam 571 550 501 554 -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711