Re: How to run Fetchmail
Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
>
> I am not sure how I should start fetchmail on my system.
> I have read that to start it as a system deamon at boot time, all the local
> users account data should be placed in a file under /root , I don't want to
> do that.
> Isn't there a way to start fetchmail as a system deamon and read each user's
> .fetchmailrc?
Why not cron jobs under each username?
> Besides I see I have a set deamon 5 setting in my .fetchmailrc file, how does
> that fit with starting fetchmail manually or from cron?
Don't know. Would think it would force it to run as a daemon with a
mailcheck every 5 seconds. Try it and see?
>
> Could someone light a torch over me?
>
Aren't you afraid your hair will catch on fire? :-)
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