Re: IMAP IDLE for several mail accounts

R. Diez <[email protected]> wrote:
> > IMAP doesn't really have a well-defined concept of a poll. Probably the
> > provider has a limit on the login rate, in which case you might
> > actually be better-off with  multiple IDLE connections.
> 
> Given that the small business has not many users, multiple IDLE connections
> are indeed an option. The trouble is the administrative overhead. I would
> need to write additional scripts to keep several instances of
> getmail/fetchmail running.

It would be a fairly simple set of scripts.  Basically just for each config
file you want to use, run one copy of getmail under a supervisory program
which will restart it if it exits.

> But maybe getmail's author is willing to help? Unfortunately, my scripting
> skills do not extend much further beyond Bash and Perl.

Bash or perl are *more* than sufficient.  If it was me, I would set each
config up as a daemontools service, so that supervise was running to restart
them when they exited, but there are other similar tools with which you could
do something like:

  #!/bin/sh
  for config in ~/.getmail/rc-* ; do
    restart-on-exit getmail [options] --rcfile "${config}" &
  done

> It is true that Yahoo has issues. But changing e-mail addresses is not so
> easy, after so many years.

No, but it gets more difficult the longer you leave it.  Buy yourself a
personal domain, arrange cheap mailhosting, and start switching over to using
it.  Keep the Yahoo address, eventually just forwarding it to your new domain
at some point.

> By the way, the link to the GMANE archive here is broken:

GMANE itself is broken, and has been for a long time.  The archive still
exists, but it only works for some messages etc.  

Charles
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