How to stop fetchmail(1)

[Mark Ovens]

On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 05:58:19AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> [.....]
> > > Fetchmail seems to be very reliable in background mode.  With my arms 
> > > closed and my eyes tied behind my head,
> >              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Sounds like too much Guinness to me Brian:)
> 
> 8*)
> 
> > > I'd guess that it finishes 
> > > downloading the current message and exits cleanly..... or in the 
> > > worst case, it just drops the half-downloaded data on the floor 
> > > knowing that it'll stay on the server anyway.
> > > 
> > > I often remove the transport from under fetchmail and haven't seen 
> > > any suspicious duplicates (or ``holes'') yet.
> > > 
> > 
> > OK. I have it set up to start (``fetchmail -d 30'') in ppp.linkup
> > and ``shell fetchmail --quit'' in ppp.linkdown. From what you are
> > saying I may as well just start the daemon in /etc/rc.conf and not
> > bother stopping it when closing ppp, would you agree?
> 
> Yep, I believe that'd work fine as long as you set your dial and 
> alive filters to ignore port 110.
> 

Right. I'll go and read the manpage and find out what you're talking
about :).

Thanks.

> I actually run fetchmail on my laptop, but only when I'm at work.  At 
> home, fetchmail runs on a back end box, so I have the .linkup/
> .linkdown setup.  I actually use ``killall fetchmail'' in 
> ppp.linkdown because I didn't know about ``fetchmail --quit'' :-P
> 
> [.....]
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