On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:17:07AM +0300, Tero M?ntyvaara wrote:

> 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.

Fetchmail was designed for single-user use.
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Tero M?ntyvaara wrote:
> How do I set fetchmail to automatically fetch mails of all user?

I created a user named "mailagent". A cron job runs fetchmail as that user
every five minutes. The mailagent user's .forward file runs the mailagent
program which forwards each user's mail. You could use procmail rather
than mailagent, of course.

Carl Fink writes:
> Fetchmail was designed for single-user use.

Read the section in the manual about multidrop.
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