On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:13:29AM +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: > > Would anyone like to express their views as to the relative merits of fetchmail and >getmail? >
fetchmail is nothing to write home about but does the job so long as you don't ask too much of it. I used to run it in daemon mode polling pop/imap servers every 15 mins but it would randomly lock up and/or just stop working (or die) every so often. Now I have a script (called getmail) which is run from cron every 15 mins and calls fetchmail in "single run" mode (which is a slight pest cos it has to run as root to su to each user to run fetchmail). I haven't bothered too much about it as I'm moving to proper smtp mail delivery shortly. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
