Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4547 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* John Lalla <john.lalla@xxxxxxx> [05-10-04 23:41]:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx' 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



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