[TriLUG] Fetchmail (was: Email rejections)

Rick DeNatale rick.denatale at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 16:54:22 EDT 2005


On 7/6/05, Jeffrey A. Groves <jgroves at krenim.org> 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.



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