Re: How to only get new mail
Changqing Li <[email protected]>
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On 4/22/19 11:47 PM, Charles Cazabon wrote: > 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 Thanks. > > Charles -- BRs Sandy(Li Changqing)