RE: Fetchmail for all users
On 05-Sep-99 Martin Fluch wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
>>
>> On 05-Sep-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > at home, I have my brothers and I want to do the following
>> > thing:
>> > when PPP goes up fetchmail get all the mail from them and store
>> > in /var/spool/mail/paulo pedro luiz ....
>> > So I have to have a .fetchmailrc for root with all the accounts?
>> > in
>> > /root?
>>
>> That is how I do it.
>
> Have a look at /usr/doc/fetchmail. There are two skripts to be put in
> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/ and an sample global
> fetchmailrc
> file, to be put in /etc/. fetchmail will automaticaly run as a deamon,
> fetching mail for different users in regular intervalls, till the ppp
> conection goes down. I guess, that's the best way to do it.
Thanks. I wondered if I could do it that way. I will check it out.
--
Andrew
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