[Wylug-help] Fetchmail/procmail question

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 23 Aug 2007, Jim Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Stephen Patterson wrote:
> > For multi-user systems fetchmail should be running as a daemon
>
>                                    ^^^^^^
>
> doesn't have to. Can be crontab'ed. Could be run by the user as and when,
> or in my case when imapd is invoked (with a suitable suitable locking
> emchanism to prevent multiple runs).
>
This morning I got a message telling me to go back to cron, which I did.  I'm 
now running individual fetchmail+procmail jobs, and it's working fine. I know 
it's not the only way to do it, but it's fine for me.  Thanks

Anne

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