... > 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? ... well, you could write a init.d script that does the following: for i in `find /home -name .fetchmailrc 2>/dev/null|cut -d/ -f3`; do /bin/su $i -c /usr/bin/fetchmail-d 300; done done it should work I think, though it is untested.. yours Albert Dengg