Re: [fetchmail-users] Question about mailing lists

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

"Andrew N. Gray" <an...@gr...> writes:

> I would say working great, when compared to the pop3 connector for  
> exchange which is a complete PITA.

If Exchange works as "well" as Outlook 11 does, then "complete PITA" is
an euphemism.

> A couple more questions:
>
> if I want to check 20 pop accounts, should I run fetchmail in daemon  
> mode or via a cron.  Is there a way to get it to pause for a time  
> between each poll?

Functionally, the cron approach is a tad more robust, but can also emit
more warnings, since it stores less state information internally.

For the pausing, check something like

    postconnect "sleep 21"

after each poll statement. See the fetchmail and sleep manual pages.

-- 
Matthias Andree