Fetchmail question
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Feb 21 15:05:27 UTC 2005
Sasa Stupar wrote:
> Running mail server on FC3 - sendmail+cyrus. Some user want to fetch
> mail from other servers so I have provided then fetchmail functionality.
> The question is how to run fetchmail as a daemon for all users at server
> startup?
> For now every user is responsible to run fetchmail -d xxx manually but
> if server went down for some reason then they need again manually to
> start it up.
An alternative would be for each user to set a cron job (see "man
crontab" and "man 5 crontab") that called fetchmail periodically instead
of using "fetchmail -d ...".
This would run at the specified times whenever the server was up,
needing no user interaction once it was set up.
Paul.
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