Re: How to only get new mail

Changqing Li <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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