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

[Stephen A. <fet...@ro...>]

Rob MacGregor wrote:
> You're *very* out of date - 6.3.5 is out and a lot of bug fixes have 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.

That was a problem with Fedora, when I first started using it - I didn't 
realise each version is only supported for basically a year.  The legacy 
project is next to useless.  However, I'm in the process of upgrading 
from FC3, to 4 then to 5 (the oldest supported version).

> 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.

Ok, that's good to know.

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

That's basically what I'm after.  I sent a similar message to the 
Getmail list also.

>> And for ease of administration, I run Fetchmail as root, collecting
> 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.

I really don't know how to do this, it's in the documentation I presume? 
  Even if I gave it it's own user/group, could I still continue running 
it as a daemon collecting and delivering mail for all users from a 
single instance and rc file?

Many thanks,
Steve :)