Christopher Judd wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have modified also the files /etc/default/fetchmail and
>> /etc/fetchmailrc but I don't know which parameter affects to which
>> function. Anyway the file .fetchmailrc and user daemon are the
>> solutions that I was looking for. I had put that "set daemon nnn" in
>> .fetchmailrc, but it didn't work. :-(
>>
>> What should I put in files /etc/default/fetchmail and
>> /etc/fetchmailrc then?
>>
>>
>> Tero Mäntyvaara
>>
>> Patricia Fraser wrote:
>>> Hi Tero,
>>>
>>>> How do I set fetchmail to automatically fetch mails of all user?
>>>> Every user have to give command fetchmail -a at the moment to get
>>>> their mails.
>>> Unless you want to use a system-wide fetchmail, you can put a line
>>> in each user's .fetchmailrc:
>>>
>>> set daemon nnn
>>>
>>> where "nnn" is the number of seconds between polls - I have mine
>>> set at 900. They can then use "fetchmail -q" to shut the daemon
>>> down.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>
> What happens if you run (as root) /etc/init.d/fetchmail start (or
> restart)?

It goes like this:

# /etc/init.d/fetchmail restart
Restarting mail retriever agent: fetchmailfetchmail: no mailservers have
been specified.
failed!


Tero Mäntyvaara

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