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Note:
Versions of getmail prior to 3.1.0 you need to rename the recipient_header
directive to "envelope_recipient". The authour of getmail thought there was
simply too much confusion about it. Sorry, but you'll have to update your
getmailrc file and rename this directive if you're using it.
getmail 3.x does not have native mbox support, as all mbox-capable MDAs on a
given system must use the same locking mechanism and support the same mbox
subtype. You can use getmail's command delivery mechanism to deliver through
an external mbox-aware MDA (see the next paragraph) if you must, but consider
using maildirs instead.
getmail includes getmail_mbox, an mbox delivery agent you can use in this
fashion. It supports mboxrd-format mbox files and uses flock-style locking.
Make sure these are the correct types for your system before using it, as all
mbox-handling programs on a system must use the same types and values.
To use getmail_mbox to deliver to mbox files, specify it as an external MDA.
It takes the path to the mbox file as a commandline argument, as follows:
getmail_mbox /path/to/mbox
Example uses:
postmaster = "|/usr/bin/getmail_mbox /path/to/mbox
local = "^joe@.*$,|/usr/bin/getmail_mbox /home/joe/mbox
local = "^sam@.*$,|/usr/bin/getmail_mbox /home/sam/mbox
See: http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-3.0/faq.html#other-errors
Example how to keep cron from running multiple instances of getmail using a
simple wrapper. Copy these lines below and create for example
~/bin/getmailwrap.sh and call ~/bin/getmailwrap.sh from crontab.
Example wrapper script from: Tom Goulet <tomg@em.ca>
-- cut --
#!/bin/sh
if [ -f ~/.getmail_lock ] ; then
exit
fi
touch ~/.getmail_lock
trap "rm ~/.getmail_lock ; exit 1" INT
getmail "$@"
rm ~/.getmail_lock
-- cut --
-- Fredrik Steen <stone@debian.org>
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