[gentoo-user] Re: Fetchmail

2005-12-13 Thread reader
Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've recently experienced a bizarre failure... and I wondered if anyone else has experienced something similar or has a suggestion to avoid a similar annoyance in future. Sorry I can't offer a diffinative answer but a maybe a possible solution to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fetchmail

2005-12-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe if you took `set daemon 60' out of .fetchmailrc and ran it from cron? Thanks for the suggestion, but the reason I've avoided the cron approach is that I've two objectives: 1. To minimise latency in delivery of messages as far as is practical (without placing

[gentoo-user] Re: Fetchmail

2005-12-13 Thread reader
Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The advantage of daemon mode here is that I neither end up with a huge polling delay nor any risk of a collision where two processes attempt to access the same POP account at the same time (which I'd expect to cause aggravation.) Running from cron

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fetchmail

2005-12-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The advantage of daemon mode here is that I neither end up with a huge polling delay nor any risk of a collision where two processes attempt to access the same POP account at the same time (which I'd expect to cause aggravation.) Running from cron will not cause