Re: systemwide fetchmail
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:52:32AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh <Sandip> writes:
>
> Sandip> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:38:22AM -0500, Stephen Gran
> Sandip> 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?
>
> Sandip> the same can happen if these users were to fire fetchmail
> Sandip> from their respective logins? may be fetchmail daemon
> Sandip> should not look for 'all' users but only those who have
> Sandip> logged in
>
> The point Stephen made was that the .fetchmailrc file exists exactly
> so that users can control what is fetched, when it is fetched, and how
> is fetched. The systemwide daemon exists for the administrator to
> control these parameters for a class of users.
>
oh okay. got it. anyway, one small question, where is my login script
and is it enough to append it with fetchmail to do the needful?
thanx again
- sandip
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