Re: [fetchmail-users] Re: [fetchmail-announce] fetchmail 6.3.0 contained incompatible idfile change

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 05/01/06, Simon Barner <ba...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I thought about adding something similar to the FreeBSD port, but I thought
> of having one fetchmail instance per user (if that is possible). OTOH, this
> will not work if there are many users.
>
> Do you think, a system-wide fetchmail is worth the trouble? (I know, you are
> biased since you are the current maintainer ;-)

Personally, yes.  With the caveat that it only works if you're not
making lots of changes.  If things are relatively static then it works
well.

If nothing else it stops the users from deleting or messing up their
fetchmail config files themselves, and ensures you avoid hammering POP
servers with lots of simultaneous connections.

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