[REPHRASED] fetchmail

[David Fokkema <fokkema@nat.vu.nl>]

Hi group,

I'm using fetchmail on a server and I want remote users to be able to edit
their own .fetchmailrc. They use that infamous mail program from that
other OS to pop their mail from the server. Right now, users have to start
fetchmail on the server, but then it all works flawlessly. However, after
a reboot nothing is restarted and I'd hate to tell my users to
periodically check if their daemon is still running in case there was a
power failure. Is there a way to automatically start all the daemons?

OR,

If I run fetchmail from init.d as user fetchmail, how can I set up things
so that users can still configure fetchmail using their ~/.fetchmailrc?

TIA,

David