Re: [fetchmail-users] confused about system wide and private setups

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

"Rob MacGregor" <rob...@gm...> writes:

> Also, I only run Fetchmail on FreeBSD these days (though I can test on
> an old Mandrake 9.1 box), which makes helping people with startup
> issues on other platforms all but impossible.

I've seen various run scripts (old and new FreeBSD, Debian, SUSE Linux
10.0) and they are mutually vastly different.

SUSE are quite retro, they are *still* running fetchmail as root, but
they also use --fetchall as a default and thus circumvent quite a few
troubles with b0rked servers.

Debian run fetchmail 6.3.X (in testing) in its own "fetchmail" account
by default, FreeBSD can either do that, or it has recently gained a
means to spawn one fetchmail process per user.

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Matthias Andree