fetchmail daemon

[revil]

is there a way to get the fetchmail daemon to check the individual user accounts .fetchmailrc?

[angoraspruce]

[revil]

i see, thanks!

[adsmith]

It's a cheap hack, but if you want it to start automaticvally on boot, then add something like

[tecknojunky]

Some users uses Linux, some uses Windows, others uses Mac (OS 9 & 10), some...

I don't think fetchmail is what I'm looking for. I need something that will fetch remote mai accounts into a centralized imap server, and it must be flexible enough to let users specify that, and it must run on a remote box where the server lives.

Doe it exist or am i dreaming awake?
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[adsmith]

If they are using an IMAP server, then it doesn't matter what kind of client they are using.
Run fetchmail on the IMAP server, and let them edit their own .fetchmailrc.

[tecknojunky]

[adsmith]

.fetchmailrc is parsed whenever they run fetchmail (or the first time, if it runs as a daemon)

have fetchmail run just once and not daemonize (set daemon 0), then have cron call fetchmail for each user every couple minutes

[tecknojunky]

I'm not sure I understand.

Users don't log to that machine. It is solely a mail server with courier-imap and qmail.

If I understand you well, you are saying to cron a script that, when run, will scan users .fetchmailrc and run fetchmail with it? Something like:

[adsmith]