FreeBSD handbook chapter about fetchmail: abusive -d 60 option.

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Tue Dec 13 08:13:39 UTC 2005


Greetings,

the fetchmail handbook chapter (mail-fetchmail.html in the HTML online
version) gives "% fetchmail -d 60" as example for how to run fetchmail
as service/daemon. This is considered an abusive low value by many
upstream sites, and some actually enforce that mail isn't polled more
often than, say, once every five minutes.

Please consider changing this value to 600.

Thank you.

-- 
Matthias Andree



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