Thanks Tim, It works ok here now. On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 09:20 +1030, Tim wrote: > 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. I changed ownership of the files and that worked better. I am not paranoid, but want to do things right, considering the passwords in plaintext inside the users .fetchmailrc files? > > 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? I'm sorry, bad english, I meant happend at the same time. :) I too said that primes would ensure they only would poll at the same time every prime1 * prime2, but non primes will do if they are good selected, I know what I want to say, but I don't know the english words for it. :( 9 and 16 would be ok, but not 9 and 15. But sticking to primes seems like the way to go.... as long as the not are 7 all of them :) one more/other thing, i have an old 466mhz width 384MB ram I will setup as a server, I consider centos and debian, which one would you recommend? Henning Larsen
