Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail vs. Getmail (from a Fetchmail perspective)

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

On 11/12/06, Stephen Allen <fet...@ro...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I currently use Fetchmail, because, well... I do - no other reason.
> However, Fetchmail 6.2.5.5 (running as a daemon)

You're *very* out of date - 6.3.5 is out and a lot of bug fixes have
taken place since the version you're running.

> randomly stops picking up
> messages (with no events in the logfile to indicate why) until I restart
> the daemon when everything then works ok again. So, I am considering
> Getmail instead.

You may find that updating to 6.3 fixes your problem.  Alternatively
the problem may be elsewhere - without any further information it's
impossible to even guess.  Certainly I've never seen fetchmail
silently fail, and I've been running it since mid way through the 5.x
series.

>  From a Fetchmail perspective, what the the Pros/Cons of using each?  I
> don't want to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire!

Never used getmail, and you're asking on a fetchmail list - you're
going to get a very fetchmail centric response :)

> And for ease of administration, I run Fetchmail as root, collecting
> email from all users' POP3 accounts, so I only need one fetchmailrc
> file.  Is this good/bad etc?

Very bad - fetchmail will soon (if it hasn't already) refuse to allow
you to do this.  There is nothing in fetchmail that requires it to be
run as root.  Create an account for it and use this account instead.

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