Fetchmail question

[Sasa Stupar]

--On 21. februar 2005 15:05 +0000 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> 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.

For a couple of thousand users it is not a good idea. To add a cron job for 
each user.
Any other idea?

Sasa

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