Re: Getmail for many users

Mike Mildner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> is there another way to get mails from extern ISP for 'many' Users?

I have posted example "scripts" (they're just shell one-liners...) to do this
in the past several times.  I also believe the Debian (and therefore probably
Ubuntu as well) packages include a script that does this.

A fancier script like this will do it too, and is more readable:

  #!/bin/sh
  rcs=""
  cd /path/to/rcfiles
  for file in * ; do 
    rcs="$rcs -r $file"
  done
  exec getmail $rcs "$@"

That will pass any cmdline options you give the script through to getmail
along with -r options for each file in the directory specified.

Charles
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