On Tuesday 11 May 2004 12:37 am, John Lalla wrote:
On 10 May, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* John Lalla
[05-10-04 21:17]: Running fetchmail in daemon mode is all well and good, but if one is running multiple accounts, each wanting their own mail checked whether logged in or not, cron is the way to go to my mind.
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.
Regards,
Why would the fact that they all use the same pop server matter?? They each
have their own userid I assume?
Here's just part of my /etc/fetchmailrc:
set daemon 300
set logfile /var/log/fetchmail
defaults
proto pop3
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F -d %T "
#
# user1@