[TriLUG] Fetchmail (was: Email rejections)

[Jeffrey A. Groves]

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.

Jeff G.

lcboyd at nc.rr.com said:
> Thanks for all the information about Fetchmail :) I wanted to read up on
> it and came across esr's page on it - anything he makes has got to be
> good! However, his page was information overload for me. Is there a
> simpler "newbie" tutorial out there that you would recommend? Or is this
> truly something I should just start in daemon mode and let it run?
>
> Lisa B.
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