Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 01:57:50 -0500 From: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Fetchmail Questions Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20020302014811.009c1e90@pop.netzero.net>
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Ok, couple of quick questions about fetchmail. 1. I'm looking into setting things up so that users will have two choices for fetchmail on our main server. Choice 1 will allow the user to have their mail automatically fetched by fetchmail for them every 15 minutes. Choice 2 would be to set their account so that as soon as they login it automatically kicks in fetchmail and downloads their email. Now, my question is this. How would I set this up? I'm not sure how to give the user the choice between these two without a lot of really messed up hacks and work-arounds. 2. I understand doing a process via cron per user, especially for fetchmail, but not system wide were it's user independent and on a user choice system, so if the user chooses to have cron fire up fetchmail and get their mail it gets it for them without having to have the process in their name in cron or any user interaction. It just wakes up every 15 minutes, does it's thing and goes to sleep. 3. Looking for a way to setup fetchmail so that as a second choice they can login and fetchmail kicks in automatically rather than having it do its thing via cron. I'm just throwing these questions out here because one of my techs brought the ideas to me after finding out his ISP does much the same thing. It's a great idea and all, but I'm baffled on how to employ it exactly. (probably shouldn't have opened my mouth the first time about fetchmail for my vacation. I'm swimming in deep water now. hehe) Probably because I've never worked with fetchmail up until about a week ago. Thanks for all your help guys, and I promise to shut my mouth more often. These tech suggestions from my daily blurbs is starting to add up. hehe. AKA. I have a habit of open mouth, get stuck with a new thing to do. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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