[fetchmail-users] A daemon that calls fetchmail for every user

[Jona J. <fet...@0b...>]

Hi!
I administrate a small server together with some friends. Among others I
do the mail part. I set up fetchmail so that every user can fetch mails
from the different mail accounts they may have around the Internet and
read them in a single location. The problem is that AFAIK fetchmail
does not provide any #include-like directives in fetchmailrc so that I
have 2 options:
-either I save data (including passwords in clear text) for every user
in one single file
or
-every user has to run his/her own fetchmail instance.

I don't want to use the first option as I don't want to see the other's
passwords.
So we used the second option but we got problems when 2
fetchmail instances tried to access 2 different gmail mailboxes at the
same time. On top of that it's not very convenient to administrate. It
would be better to run fetchmail in a central way.
That's why I wrote a small piece of software which runs
fetchmail periodically for every user that has a .fetchmailrc in their
home folders.
I thought that it might interest other people so I post it here.
It's a daemon that has to be run as root. The only parameter it accepts
is the amount of seconds to sleep between calling fetchmail.

You can find the source code here:
http://0b10111.de/svn/development/c/console%20c/fetchiterd/fetchiterd.c

Best regards,
Jona

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