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[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On 05/27/2011 06:59 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> 
>> Fetchmail can run as a daemon, all by itself.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> Will this work OK if I'm collecting mail from several sites?
> At present I've set the cron scripts to run at different times.
> 
> I think I occasionally get error messages that fetchmail
> has failed to collect mail from one site
> because it is still collecting from another site?
> 
You can tell fetchmail to poll at specific intervals. This prevents
the error you sometimes see, because fetchmail already knows it is
downloading from that site. You could run more then one copy of
fetchmail in the daemon mode - one for each user.

You can have one config file that specifies the sites to collect
from, the order to poll them for new messages, and how to collect
from each site. If you have more then one account to collect from a
site, you can control that as well.

You may want to read the fetchmail man page, as well as the other
documentation.

Mikkel
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