Re: Getmail for many users

On 09/03/2019 21:57, Mike Mildner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there another way to get mails from extern ISP for 'many' Users? 
> At this time i call getmail like this:
> 
> getmail -r rcfile_user1 -n -rcfile_user2 -n ...
> 
> But with >20 users its not usefull
> 
I would run a separate getmail per user, 20+ users is really not that
big a thing, and have cron fire them off a minute or so apart, something
like this:
0,30 * * * * timeout 300 getmail -r user0
1,31 * * * * timeout 300 getmail -r user1
2,32 * * * * timeout 300 getmail -r user2
...
29,59 * * * * timeout 300 getmail -r user29

That has thirty users mail polling twice an hour, which seems fine.

If you want to poll more often, once every five minutes would not be an 
unusual setting, just do six at a time:
0,30 * * * * timeout 300 getmail -r user0
...
0,30 * * * * timeout 300 getmail -r user5
1,31 * * * * timeout 300 getmail -r user7
...

Most will complete fairly quickly, - see "man timeout", it kills 
processes that run too long - so it's not a big load on the system or 
network.

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)