[fetchmail]Fetchmail daemon mode

[Bill Greganti]

Hi All,

I'm slightly confused on getting fetchmail to run in daemon mode.  Let =
me
start by saying I'm running a Debian 3.1 (Sarge) system with Fetchmail
6.2.5. I have the following files setup...

/etc/fetchmailrc
-rw-------    1 fetchmail root         65 Apr 14 23:33 fetchmailrc

  set daemon 300
  set postmaster ""
  set no bouncemail
  set no spambounce
  set syslog

/home/user/.fetchmailrc
-rw-------  1 user user    83 Apr 15 22:31 .fetchmailrc

  set daemon 300
  poll server.domain.com
    proto pop3
    user "username"
    pass "password"

The startup script /etc/init.d/fetchmail is set to read the config file
/etc/fetchmailrc.  Trying to start fetchmail with that script, or =
starting
fetchmail manually with the -f option yeilds the "no mailservers" =
error..
explainable since no servers are listed in /etc/fetchmailrc.  Starting
fetchmail as the user and specifying /home/user/.fetchmailrc with the -f
option works great, but requires one fetchmail process per user.  Now, I
could move the server lines from the ~/.fetchmailrc files to the
/etc/fetchmailrc file, but then the users lose control of their =
individual
fetchmail options.

My question should be obvious now, but is there any way to do this with =
only
one fetchmail process and still leave the files in ~/.fetchmailrc so the
users can edit them?


Bill Greganti
Greganti Consulting
714-746-3356