Jamie Griffin wrote:
>>>> # /etc/init.d/fetchmail restart
>>>> Restarting mail retriever agent: fetchmailfetchmail: no mailservers
>>>> have been specified.
>>>> failed!
>>> Did you run it as root? and have you entered all the required info in
>>> /etc/fetchmailrc?
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry, that took so long. :-( Had been busy.
>>
>> * Yes I run '/etc/init.d/fetchmail restart' as root and fetchmail daemon
>> has been set to run by SysV-init scripts.
>> * My /etc/fetchmailrc is empty
>> * /home/[USER_ACCOUNT]/.fetchmailrc has:
>> set postmaster [USER_ACCOUNT]
>> set bouncemail
>> set daemon 300
>>
> You should have the server information in /etc/fetchmailrc not
> ~/.fetchmailrc if you want to run the program as root.
>
> Jamie
>
>

Isn't it possible to run fetchmail as root and then one process fetches
the mail of all users with of ~/.fetchmail?

If no, is there any script that executes daemon automatically for every
user that has .fetchmailrc?


Tero Mäntyvaara


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