Re: How to only get new mail

Changqing Li <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [destination]
> # we configure Patchwork as a "mail delivery agent", in that it will
> # handle our mails
> type = MDA_external
> path = /opt/parsemail.sh
> allow_root_commands = true

Ouch.  Note that it's a really bad idea to set allow_root_commands.

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

This should work, and retrieve only previously-unseen mail.

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

There isn't enough information in your message to tell what the problem is for
sure.  I'm *guessing* that your parsemail.sh delivery script is erroring out
but still delivering a copy of the message.  Since it errors out, getmail will
"remember" that message as previously-unseen, and retrieve it again the next
time it is run.

To help you, please do the following two things:

1) Run getmail from a shell with your usual options plus --dump.  Post the
full output of this command.

2) Temporarily set `max_messages_per_session` to 1 in your config file's
options section  and run getmail from a shell with your usual options plus
--verbose, i.e. by hand rather than from cron.  Post the full output of this
command.

That information should be enough to tell what your problem is.

Charles
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