[ale] Fetchmail

[Jim Philips]

This looks like an elegant solution. I'm looking at it and I'll try to 
implement it here.

Thanks.

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:13 pm, Jay Loden wrote:
> In the same vein, I just found a nice init script for fetchmail that you
> may find really useful in setting this up:
>
> https://www.vparsons.net/projects/fetchmail/index.shtml
>
> I've got this running on my RHEL server right now and it's working like a
> charm. Obviously you may need to adapt it for different distros, but it'll
> at least start separate user instances of fetchmail based on the
> ~/.fetchmailrc files for you.
>
> -Jay
>
> On Wednesday 16 March 2005 4:13 am, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > Fetchmail is "user specific". Each user on the mail spooler runs their
> > own fetchmail process. So you will need to set up fetchmail once for you
> > and agin for your wife. Then as root, you can run them from an rc.local
> > call using
> >
> > su - <username> 'fetchmail ~/.fetchmailrc'
> > su - <user2> ...
>
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