Re: Fetchmail

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 05/25/08 16:57, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Tero Mäntyvaara <termant@gmail.com> writes:
>> How do I set fetchmail to automatically fetch mails of all user? Every
>> user have to give command fetchmail -a at the moment to get their
>> mails.
> 
> Instead of setting up a cron job for every user as suggested by Ron, you
> could also setup a system-wide fetchmail for all users via
> /etc/fetchmailrc.  There is already a init script provided by Debian,
> but you have to enable it in /etc/default/fetchmail.

That's not very granular.  With one job per user, each person can
decide if and how frequently to check email.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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