On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:24 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Greg Folkert: > > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:26 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> > >> Yes. On most peoples' systems there's only a fistful of anyway. > ^ users > > You are fooling yourself. Run them a one shot cronjob set to run every > > 10-30 minutes. Much better use of resources on the machine. > > The fetchmail daemon takes almost no memory nor CPU when idling, so > that's a weak argument for most machines (as long as we're not talking > about wireless routers etc.). > > > As I have said before, fetchmail WILL die or hang on you, when run in > > daemon mode. > > I /had/ fetchmail running in daemon mode for something between three to > five years and five to ten POP3 accounts, but I have never experienced > the problems you describe. I do still believe, too, that fetchmail isn't > exactly the flagship of Free Software code quality. I have switched my > own POP accounts to getmail a while ago already and just yesterday I > moved my girlfriend's account to getmail, too.
Fine and dandy. I am just relaying my experience when supporting about 30 businesses and individuals, using it over the past 7+ years. Every single one had problems with it over that period, when using daemon mode. As soon as I changed it to a cronjob entry, I never got a call about e-mail not showing up again. It doesn't really matter, if it works for you, good. If it fails... don't say I didn't warn you. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
