system wide fetchmail

[Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD]

>Message: 19
>Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 00:15:20 -0500
>From: Ryan Rempel <rgrempel at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: system wide fetchmail
>To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>Message-ID: <fb5ec42305063022157a30cb1f at mail.gmail.com>
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>On 6/30/05, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
>> I'm building a mail server for a small office. Under Debian 
>I have seen the
>> choice of setting up a "system wide" copy of fetchmail. I'd 
>rather do that
>> than have to start a seperate copy for each user. Can I do 
>this in FreeBSD?
>> 
>> If so, an anyone point me to some docs for seting thsi up?
>
>What I do is run fetchmail from root's crontab, and use the -f
>argument to point to a global configuration file -- something like
>this:
>
>*/5 * * * * fetchmail -s -f /usr/local/etc/fetchmailrc
>
>Then, in the fetchmailrc, I can configure whatever I need to configure
>in order to fetch whatever mail I want (including from multiple
>servers, for multiple users, etc.).
>
>I think you can also run fetchmail as a daemon if you like -- as far
>as I know, the only trick is to use -f to make fetchmail use a
>configuration file that you can set up as you like.


Fetchmail can be run as a daemon with the -d switch. To have it check for mail every 10 minutes run "fetchmail -d 600". See man fetchmail.


>
>Now, if you want each user to be able to administer their own
>fetchmailrc, then I don't know how to do that without having each user
>run fetchmail individually.


Peter Harrison.


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