Re: How to only get new mail

On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:41:09 +0800
Changqing Li wrote:

 
> [options]
> verbose=1
> # retrieve only new emails
> read_all = false

> I hope to retrieve mail by getmail and the mail send to parsemail.sh
> to parse. but I only hope to get new mail or maybe get the same mail
> only one time.

'read_all = false' means that getmail keeps a list of what it's
retrieved and downloads what's not on the list.


> but the actual result is that, there is a mail A, it will be
> retrieved everytime crontab run "getmail --getmaildir=/opt/getmail/
> --idle INBOX". so the mail A will be parsed per 5 minutes.

I don't use --idle myself but my understanding is that it causes
getmail to stay logged for ever. So running it from a 5 minute crontab
entry will lead to multiple getmail instances.