Re: Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:52:03 -0400
Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Orestes leal wrote:
> >
> > Recently i've setup a mail service for my 7 users through my and pop3
> > server and getmail to get the email from every account from my main
> > pop3 server, everything ok but i can't setup getmail to get email from
> > the 7 accounts of my main server at the same time, and because that I
> > do that at hand (for now), I need a way to make that getmail download
> > and deliver the all 7 acounts in the server to the local accounts
> > every 20 seconds, thanks.
> >
> > NOTE: Sorry for my *awfull* english.
> >
>
> Hello Orestes,
>
> FYI, please wrap your lines at 72.
>
> To clarify your english:
>
> Your email is sitting on a pop server and you want to configure getmail
> to retreive that mail every 20 seconds?
>
> I would think that a pop session would take longer than 20 seconds to
> complete. Why do you need it every 20 seconds?
Depends, of course, on the volume.
> On the other hand, I've never used getmail; I use fetchmail.
Getmail wants to be run as a cron job; it isn't designed to run as a
daemon.
> Doug.
Celejar
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