I see... My wife uses pine for her email, so it works for her :-)
Jeff G. Rick DeNatale said: > 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 > -- Jeffrey A. Groves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.krenim.org/ -- 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
