11 May
2004
11 May
'04
21:53
The Tuesday 2004-05-11 at 06:49 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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.
Not unless you *really* *really* have to allow each user to have their own .fetchmailrc. You can do it all in one /etc/.fetchmailrc with a lot less hassel.
(running 6 accts here on a home LAN)
The only reason to run separate fetchmail processes would be to keep passwords private for each person - but as the root can read them all, it doesn't matter. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson