On 7/6/05, Jeffrey A. Groves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I experienced the same "drinking from a fire hose" effect when I was first > trying to get fetchmail running. Unless someone else here says differently, I > suggest that each user start up their own fetchmail daemon. I set it up in > /etc/profile to call fetchmail each time they log in. If it's already > running, calling it again just initiates an immediate check of the forwarded > email account, so no problem. > > I've been running it that way for about 5 years without much trouble.
Well as I said before, I run it a a daemon in the background polling for both my wife's email and mine. If I did it on user log in, she'd never get her email since she almost never logs in to the linux box, instead she uses my linux workstation as a mail server and ends up getting her main on a windows box (using Thunderbird) via imap. The benefit she gets from this arrangement is that the linux box scrubs her mail before it sees her windows machine. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
