Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:04:24 +0100 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD handbook chapter about fetchmail: abusive -d 60 option. Message-ID: <1134464664.86649.2.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> In-Reply-To: <20051213081336.GA19916@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <20051213081336.GA19916@merlin.emma.line.org>
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Matthias Andree píše v út 13. 12. 2005 v 09:13 +0100:
> Greetings,
>
> the fetchmail handbook chapter (mail-fetchmail.html in the HTML online
> version) gives "% fetchmail -d 60" as example for how to run fetchmail
> as service/daemon. This is considered an abusive low value by many
> upstream sites, and some actually enforce that mail isn't polled more
> often than, say, once every five minutes.
>
> Please consider changing this value to 600.
Updated in CVS.
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Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
Sun couldn't care less about Linux other than it now being necessary
in order to be buzzword compliant.
-- Al Dente
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