Multiple Fetchmail

[Paul M]

Longman wrote:
> 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

I too found that fetchmail in daemon mode did odd things from time to
time, so, instead....

I have one .fetchmailrc in the home directory for user mail, and then
have a cronjob for that user; I redirect output to
/var/log/mail/fetchmail.out so I can see if it's failing.


I think I had to fix up some directory permissions but it's been happy
for a long time.