"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 08:29:48AM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > I had a similar problem and could not work out a resolution, so > I deleted > > the daemon reference in my .fetchmailrc and used a crontab to run it. > It's > > not the best thing to do, but it's practical. > > I've found fetchmail buggy if you leave it up too long, so I also > run it > on a crontab. After a while it just wouldn't download mail anymore, > unless > I killed it and restarted it.
My mileage varies from yours. I leave it up for over a month at a time without incident, fetching mail every 30 seconds.