Re: systemwide fetchmail
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:38:22AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 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?
the same can happen if these users were to fire fetchmail from their respective logins? may
be fetchmail daemon should not look for 'all' users but only those who have logged in
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