Best practice to launch standalone?

[Walter Ian Kaye]

Is there a preferred way to launch/autolaunch Qpopper?
A web search turned up suggestions like "just write a shell script" 
and the following:

   #!/bin/sh
   case "$1" in
   start)
   /usr/local/libexec/qpopper
   ;;
   stop)
   killall qpopper
   ;;
   *)
   echo "Usage: $(basename $0) (start|stop)" >&2
   ;;

# chmod a+x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qpopper.sh

Should I use that?

thanks,
-Walter