[fetchmail]Fetchmail daemon mode

[Bill Greganti]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fetchmail-friends-admin@lists.ccil.org 
> [mailto:fetchmail-friends-admin@lists.ccil.org] On Behalf Of 
> Rob MacGregor
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 11:50 AM
> To: Fetchmail User Mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [fetchmail]Fetchmail daemon mode
> 
> 
> On 4/17/05, Bill Greganti <t20030101@greganti.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Not being real familiar with fetchmail yet, does anyone see 
> > a problem with thousands of processes running?
> 
> Depends on your hardware and OS (and how you've tuned that OS if
> applicable).  Mostly it depends on what you really mean by thousands.

I guess 3,000 and 900,000 are both in the thousands. :)

Probably no more than 5000 email users, along with a couple hundred 
low to medium traffic websites.  By that point I'll invest in another 
machine and a co-location service.

> What you're trying to do isn't that bad an idea, but it's fraught with
> so many potential problems, and that's before anybody approaches it
> with a malicious intent.

For now I'm going to go with the one process per user.  What I may 
work on over time, would be a script that will start multiple fetchmail 
daemons, but each handling say a block of 100 users.  This would be a 
compromise between my two current options.


Bill Greganti
Greganti Consulting
714-746-3356