This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > is not there a way in which i can ask the fetchmail daemon to look for > .fetchmailrc files in different user directories? > - sandip Sadly, no. This is the difference between system-wide and per-user jobs. Can you imagine the overhead if fetchmail had to sort over 11,000 different user accounts, see who has a .fetchmailrc, and start up a seperate process for each? Often this would also result in mulitple polls of the same mail server, and so forth, just to add more headache. Linux is really scaled to be a multi-user platform. Some of the scaling doesn't seem to make all that much sense when it's a single user box, but remember what the program was written for, and it will make a lot more sense. Steve -- Finding out what goes on in the C.I.A. is like performing acupuncture on a rock. -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981
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