On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 15:25 +0100, Henning Larsen wrote: > The .fetchmailrc files is now in users home dirs. They are owned by > root, and they contain passwords. > Should I change owners of the files and put passwords somewhere else? I can't see any reason why you'd want them owned by root. The users know their own passwords (or should do). The users can still replace a root-owned file in their own homespace. Fetchmail doesn't need them owned by root, and I don't know if that might cause a problem by itself. > About what you said about primes, I don't follow. The poll times is the number of seconds between polls. If you set them all at 8 minutes, for example, then all your mail polling would happen at the same time (barring server delays, etc.). If you had a lot of users, that might be a heavy workload (or a real pain over slow dialup, as your mail polling swamps your bandwidth). If you set them with different poll time values, then they'd usually poll separately, but at some stage they might poll at the same time as their time periods overlap. That shouldn't happen with primes, as they're not multiples of other numbers. > if polls happen every 11 and 13 minute they will crash every 11x13 > min. What's crashing? -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
