Andre Berger wrote: > My point was not to bother about users's mail as root at all. Users's > mail is fetched on dial-up if... > > > > if [ -f /home/$i/.fetchmailrc ] && \ > > > [ -f /home/$i/email-addresses ]; then > > > > > > > su -c "fetchmail -d 900" $user > > > > Which pretty much does the same thing as my code. Question: What is the > > ~/email-addresses file for? > > Only if that file ~/email-addresses also exists, the users's mail is > fetched on dail-up (The name I chose is stupid, why did I keep it around?!).
I see, this way fetchmail won't be run for _every_ user. If a user wants fetchmail he just touches this file. Good idea, actually. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
