Greg Folkert: > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:26 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Yes. On most peoples' systems there's only a fistful of anyway. ^ users > You are fooling yourself. Run them a one shot cronjob set to run every > 10-30 minutes. Much better use of resources on the machine.
The fetchmail daemon takes almost no memory nor CPU when idling, so that's a weak argument for most machines (as long as we're not talking about wireless routers etc.). > As I have said before, fetchmail WILL die or hang on you, when run in > daemon mode. I /had/ fetchmail running in daemon mode for something between three to five years and five to ten POP3 accounts, but I have never experienced the problems you describe. I do still believe, too, that fetchmail isn't exactly the flagship of Free Software code quality. I have switched my own POP accounts to getmail a while ago already and just yesterday I moved my girlfriend's account to getmail, too. J. -- Quite often I wonder why I am not more famous and/or more wealthy. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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