Re: Fetchmail

[Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>]

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Turn on your line wraps to 72 columns, please.

On Sun, 19 May 2002, Keith O'Connell wrote:

> I am newish and have just installed Woody onto two machines at home
> and I am having a few mail hic-cups. I noticed that there was a global
> fetchmail facility which I read up on and duly got working. I used to
> use fetchmail as a user and set a cron job to down load the mail every
> 10 min, but the global fetchmail options takes care of its own
> scheduling. What I want to know is, how often does it download mail,
> and how can I change this time gap? I don't desperately want to change
> it as it is working fine, I just want to know how it works.

There should be a line in /etc/fetchmailrc that says something like
set daemon 600
This tells it to go daemon and poll every 600 seconds.  This is arguably
more sane than using cron, depending on what camp you're in.

> Secondly I use one of two machines at any one time and they are setup
> is the same. I have found that exporting /var/mail from the machine
> that runs fetchmail enables me to have my mail from which ever machine
> I book on to. What I want to know is, is this the right way to do it?
> What is considered the correct/safest/"best" way to share mail for
> users across a number of machines?

imap.

- -- 
Baloo


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