Re: Getmail for many users

sure, a for loop will do things right.
But you must call (and maintance) all rcfiles seperatly.
Is there a way to but all together in one rc file?


> Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> hat am 9. März 2019 um 15:42 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> 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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