On 2006-12-14, G.H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is better to fetch mail using 'cron' + 'fetchmail' or 'getmail'.
You don't need cron. Fetchmail has a daemon mode itself, and with that you don't have to store the password anymore. And that is also the major problem of running e.g. fetchmail from ion-statusd: you need to pass it the password on each startup (of ion-statusd). I've been thinking of turning it into a proper daemon using unix sockets, started separately from Ion. That would help, as you could just ask for the password in startx or so, or have pam start it or whatever. It would also help if someone else did it... (I have some other ideas too; please ask if interested.) -- Tuomo
