[fetchmail]Errors (mail to "root") if "user" is missing

[Michelle Konzack]

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Hello *,=20

I have a FileServer with ~80 $USER curently. Because I am fetching
for all $USER the messages with fetchmail and filter it with procmail/
fprot/spamassassin I was running into resources trouble if some $USER
fetch there Messages parallel... 512 MByte Memory was not enough.

Now I have set fetchmail to 700 and the $USER can not use it
anymore :-)

OK, then I have created a Script (run from /etc/cron.d/tdfetchmail)
which check one $USER after one and verify whether the=20
$HOME/.tdfetchmail/mail.fetch is there or not...=20

If it is there my "tdfetchmail" script downloads the messages from the
accounts in the "mail.fetch" file (multiple files can be specified) :-)

Now the Problem:

If a $USER want to disable on of his/her accounts like:

poll mx.freenet.de protocol imap
    user email1         with password secret1   is the_user here
#    user email2         with password secret2   is the_user here
    user email3         with password secret3   is the_user here
    user email4         with password secret4   is the_user here

Then it works without any problems...
But if it is only:

poll mx.freenet.de protocol imap
#    user email1         with password secret1   is the_user here

then I (root) become bombed by fetchmail with:

fetchmail: can't find a password for root@mx.freenet.de.

Is there a possibility to avoid fetchmail to try to fetch my ISP's
root-account ?

I mean, if there is only a line of

poll mx.freenet.de protocol imap

that fetchmail does not try to fetch anything ?

This will a very good feature which I am curenty missing.

Another question: Is <fetchmail-users@lists.berlios.de> not more active ?

Greetings
Michelle

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