Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (22/03/07 20:32), Greg Folkert wrote:
> You are fooling yourself. Run them a one shot cronjob set to run every
> 10-30 minutes. Much better use of resources on the machine.
> 
> As I have said before, fetchmail WILL die or hang on you, when run in
> daemon mode.

I may have misunderstood but we've got three IMAP servers and they all
collect email with fetchmail in daemon mode setup in /etc/fetchmailrc.
In the last three years, I've not experienced the problems you indicate.

extract:

# /etc/fetchmailrc for system-wide daemon mode
# This file must be chmod 0600, owner fetchmail

# The default for this option is 300, which polls the server every 5
# minutes.
#
set daemon     300
set postmaster "postmaster"
set properties ""

Regards

Clive

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