Best practice to launch standalone?

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