On 4/17/05, Bill Greganti <t20030101(_at_)greganti(_dot_)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.
Also, in the spirit of using a single fetchmail process against the advice
given, does anyone see problem with writing a script to conpile all of the
~/.fetchmailrc files into /etc/fetchmailrc?
Where to start...?
At the very least you have to carefully sanity check those files. One
single error would be enough to kill parsing of the resulting file.
Beyond that, take care of how fetchmail would handle multiple entries
saying to poll server A for user B. What if 2 people put in their own
entries, with different delivery details?
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.
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