[TriLUG] Fetchmail (was: Email rejections)

[Jeffrey A. Groves]

I see...

My wife uses pine for her email, so it works for her :-)

Jeff G.
Rick DeNatale said:
> On 7/6/05, Jeffrey A. Groves <jgroves at krenim.org> wrote:
>> I experienced the same "drinking from a fire hose" effect when I was first
>> trying to get fetchmail running.  Unless someone else here says differently,
>> I
>> suggest that each user start up their own fetchmail daemon.  I set it up in
>> /etc/profile to call fetchmail each time they log in.  If it's already
>> running, calling it again just initiates an immediate check of the forwarded
>> email account, so no problem.
>>
>> I've been running it that way for about 5 years without much trouble.
>
> Well as I said before, I run it a a daemon  in the background polling
> for both my wife's email and mine. If I did it on user log in, she'd
> never get her email since she almost never logs in to the linux box,
> instead she uses my linux workstation as a mail server and ends up
> getting her main on a windows box (using Thunderbird) via imap. The
> benefit she gets from this arrangement is that the linux box scrubs
> her mail before it sees her windows machine.
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