Bug#338944: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#338944: Add a way to launch user configured

[Nico Golde]

* Laurent Bigonville <l.bigonville at easynet.be> [2005-11-14 00:52]:
> Package: fetchmail
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> It would be fine if the initscript could also launch fetchmail for users
> when they have a .fetchmailrc file in their home. This should maybe be
> configurable with an option in /etc/default/fetchmail.

Sorry, but we will not add this feature and I think it would 
be not acceptable if it would interact in home-directories 
of a users.
If you want to start fetchmail on startup use for example 
crontab with the @reboot option (man 5 crontab) or build a 
custom shell (or init) script, for example something like:

for i in /home/*/.fetchmailrc ; do
  su - -c "nice fetchmail -d1800" $(echo "$i" | cut -f3 -d/)
done

Kind regard
Nico Golde

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