-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks. Unfortunately, that doesn't make it any better than running it as a cron job. My desire is that no matter how many users are using, only ONE fetchmail process is needed. Instead of all users running their own fetchmail, have the system run ONE and have this one process check for ~/.fetchmailrc files in all user directories and go from there. As a new user creates a .fetchmailrc, the fetchmail daemon would simply find it and use it on the next fetch.
- From your answer I assume that fetchmail is not capable of this. To my thinking, this is a flaw in design. Instead of designing a system that requires each and every user run independent instances of fetchmail, it is self evident that a single process handling the mail for any and all users is more logical and clean in design. Fetchmail can't do this? Is there a fetchmail-alike that can? praedor On Thursday 30 October 2003 08:36 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2003 08:25 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > OK. On my laptop I use a global /etc/fetchmailrc file because I like the > > cleanliness of running fetchmail as a daemon at startup rather than as a > > cron job as a user (Ugh. Crude. Ugly). I decided to experiment on my > > desktop and try to use fetchmail in daemon mode but instead of an > > /etc/fetchmailrc, I have a ~/.fetchmailrc file. Naturally, no worky. > > > > Is there a way to get fetchmail, the DAEMON, to use my ~/.fetchmailrc > > file or am I going to have to copy it to /etc/fetchamilrc again? > > Simply run fetchmail with the -f option and specify the exact fetchmailrc > file that you want it to use. IE. fetchmail -d 180 -f > /home/user/.fetchmailrc - -- Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a critical component of spiritual devotion. - --Krakauer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ob+Pb1CLurEA6xURAkwQAKCXh1UfAbXV7/G+MBv5Fgm3/yr/jQCfUzeQ PZZgC2VkNiHcZYSfb79xhdw= =mBpq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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