Multiple Fetchmail

Longman clug at gasops.co.uk
Mon Oct 20 16:08:09 CEST 2008


If I want to have fetchmail running in daemon mode for multiple users
but don't want those users to have shell access to the box what options
do I have available to me?

I want to basically have "fetchmail -d 60" running for multiple people
(plus applicable .fetchmailrc files). One way of doing it is not to use
the -d option at all and just have fetchmail scripts in people's home
directory and call the script from cron.  This is what I'm currently
doing though it's not elegant.

My main concern is not actually starting fetchmail running but how to
make sure it is constantly running because in the past it's just stopped
in the background and then I've had to su to a persons account to kill
it and put it in the background again.



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