Dear List,

We are using qmail based servers in two places. Both are working excellently. One server will be available for the external world. It will receive all the mails. The local server will fetch mails from the main server using fetchmail and deliver to the users. Now the number of users are increased (around 500).
Now the time to complete one cycle of the fetch mail has been increased. In future, the number of user may increased further. Is there any possibility to run the fetch mail in multiple instances? or is there any alternatives can be used for fetch mails? Please provide your suggestions.

Thanks and Regards,
S.Senthilvel.

It may not meet your performance requirements, but it may be worth checking out getmail:

http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/

I switched from fetchmail to getmail about 6 months ago and have been quite happy with it.

Evo2.