Re: How to only get new mail
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
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RW <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. I missed that in the OP's message -- yes, running getmail from cron with --idle doesn't make much sense. Even just running getmail every 5 minutes from cron without doing something to prevent multiple simultaneous getmails from all retrieving mail at once will lead to duplicate messages and other issues. http://pyropus.ca./software/getmail/faq.html#faq-how-to-mutex Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------