On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 10:06, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> scheduling. What I want to know is, how often does it download mail,
> and how can I change this time gap? I don't desperately want to change
> it as it is working fine, I just want to know how it works.

man fetchmail

Reaad the "DAEMON MODE" section.

> I book on to. What I want to know is, is this the right way to do it?
> What is considered the correct/safest/"best" way to share mail for
> users across a number of machines?

Sounds like IMAP is what you're looking for. Try:

apt-cache show uw-imapd
apt-cache show cyrus-imapd

Or:

apt-cache search imapd

That should give you all of the package info you need. Do a google
search for more information on the protocol itself.

-Alex

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