local IMAP server

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Fetchmail can run as a daemon, all by itself.

Timothy Murphy:
> 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.

Mine does.  My .fetchmailrc file has the details for several different
mailservices.  Fetchmail runs as a background task and wakes up every X
seconds, stepping through the .fetchmailrc file one server at a time.

I posted an example of how it's set up a few days ago, in this thread.

NB:  Don't set the interval too short.  Service providers may start
blocking access for over-use.  Or, another problem can be that your
fetchmail run might not finish completing before you ask it to do the
next run.  I set mine for about 9 minute intervals.

> 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?

Sounds about right.

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