Cokey de Percin wrote:
> Another way is to use just the root .fetchmailrc like this:
[snip]
> Just stack'em up. I've got 5 right now and it works just fine. Much easier
> to administer....
I thought of that, I just think it's cleaner to keep user settings in user
home directories by default. For one thing, /home is usually on it's own
partition. For myself, I backup home directories more often than the the
others and I'm more careful about that data than the rest of the system.
Having separate fetchmailrc files also allows each user to maintain their
own (not likely, but possible) and to run fetchmail themselves. The machine
I run mail on is also a workstation. I have a menu item that runs fetchmail
for the logged-in user. This feature requires a ~/.fetchmailrc file.
I know root can look at anything on the machine, but I like the idea of
users' data being in their own directories in files owned by them.
Tony
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