Re: Starting fetchmail on boot (runing as user)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, stan wrote:
> I'm migrating mail services to individula user machines.
> 
> I want to use fetchmail to retrieve the mail for each user (runing
> fetchmail as that user).
> 
> What;s "The Debian Way" of starting up these user instances of fetchmail?

There isn't one, but see the BTS entries for fetchmail (there is a bug there
with some ideas).

Personally, I just run "while true; do fetchmail ; sleep 10m ; done" in a
detached "screen" (see the screen package).

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  Henrique Holschuh