On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 17:24:34 -0400, Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 wrote:
> Would running fetchmail as daemon have any effect?
Running featchmail as a daemon works well for me. I have the account
info recorded in my .fetchmailrc file, and then when I first boot my
machine I just run "fetchmail -d300" and enter the password for my email
account before I start up Mutt.
The daemon will send me a warning email if something goes wrong later
(e.g. it's unable to log in because the the password on the server has
changed), but otherwise it doesn't generate any "extra" emails.
(However, normal activity/progress messages do show up in my
/var/log/syslog, so if I ever have a need, I can go back and see how
many messages it downloaded during a particular run, etc.)
Nathan
