Re: How to only get new mail

On 4/22/19 10:24 PM, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> 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.

Your guessing is right.  This is my problem.

Thanks very much.

>
> 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

-- 
BRs

Sandy(Li Changqing)