[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recommend against setting fethcmail in daemon mode. My exprience > is that it can stop functioning after a while. Instead run from > cron.
My experience is that fetchmail running from a cron job sometimes hangs. Not often, but every once in a while I notice that the only new mail I have is a series of complaints from the cron job saying "There is a foreground fetchmail running at XXX". Then I have to manually kill XXX to get things going again. Kind of annoying. I've thought of making a procmail filter to catch those messages and run a script to kill the hung process automatically, but I've never got around to it. I'm trying daemon mode now, with a single system-wide fetchmail handling everyone's incoming mail. So far so good, but it's only been a few hours. We'll see. Now, if I want my system-wide fetchmail to run in a non-root account, what do I have to do? I assume I should create a user named 'fetchmail' that is a member of the mail group (is that necessary?), and has /bin/false for its shell since no one will ever login to it. Then I suppose /etc/fetchmailrc and /etc/defaults/fetchmail would have to be owned by the fetchmail account so it can read them? Are there any other requirements? Craig
