[ale] Fetchmail

Michael Trausch fd0man at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 19:47:30 EST 2005


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Joe Steele wrote:
> 
> Configured properly, fetchmail is fully capable of being run by a 
> single user for retrieving multiple users' mail.  For example, one 
> could create a user 'mailservice' (doesn't need root privileges) that 
> uses fetchmail in a cron job or in daemon mode with a ~/.fetchmailrc 
> such as this:
> 
[snip]

That's actually something that I hadn't ever thought of since
fetchmail got the multiple user ability... sheez.  And that's
actually pretty simple and elegant.

	- Mike

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