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Multiple instances of Fetchmail on RHEL

Hi,
My fetchmail.rc file is configured to download mails for more than 100 users. my fetchmail runs at every 5 minutes and download the mails. Now the problem is it takes around 15 minutes to 20 minutes to complete the one cycle of fetchmail file for downloading all mails for every users.

My question is can i run multiple instances of fetchmail at a time, say 3 instances of fetchmail file containing 30 uses each in one file, so that it downloads mails for all users at a time.

Thanks
Kumud

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kumud Kumar Singh (Post 3604044)

can i run multiple instances of fetchmail at a time

Yes you can!

Thanks,

Can u pls guide me how to do that.
I am stuck pls. help me

kumud

What have you tried? What point are you stuck at?

i have around 112 users.
what i have done is, i have created 3 .fetchmailrc file named .fetchmailrc1, .fetchmairc2 and 3, distributing 35 users in each file.
now the problem is fetchmail program runs only .fetchmailrc file.
i have tried running fetchmail for remaining files, but it doesn't fetch mails for the users which are in files .fetchmailrc2 and 3.

Thanks

'man fetchmail', "Miscellaneous Options": "-f <pathname> | --fetchmailrc <pathname>: Specify a non-default name for the ~/.fetchmailrc run control file"?

I didn't get You.
Can u be more specific ?

Kumud

If you issue 'man fetchmail', then in that manual page go to the chapter "Miscellaneous Options". There you will find a switch called "--fetchmailrc". This switch allows you to specify another path/name instead of "~/.fetchmailrc".

Thanks
but it doesn't help

even this is pretty old i will trow my solution in here becouse i dont think this is solved:

Code:

 cat /etc/init.d/_fetchmailStart

#!/bin/sh



d_start() {



        echo "start user1 hotmail - POP3"

        export FETCHMAILHOME=/home/user1/.fetchmail/Hotmail

        fetchmail -L /var/log/fetchmailUser1Hotmail.log -f ${FETCHMAILHOME}/fetchmailrc --pidfile ${FETCHMAILHOME}/fetchmail.pid -d 800



        echo "start user1 gmx - IMAP IDLE"

        export FETCHMAILHOME=/home/user1/.fetchmail/GMX

        fetchmail -L /var/log/fetchmailuser1Gmx.log -f ${FETCHMAILHOME}/fetchmailrc --pidfile ${FETCHMAILHOME}/fetchmail.pid -d 60



        echo "start user2 gmx - IMAP IDLE"

        export FETCHMAILHOME=/home/user2/.fetchmail/GMX

        fetchmail -L /var/log/fetchmailuser2Gmx.log -f ${FETCHMAILHOME}/fetchmailrc --pidfile ${FETCHMAILHOME}/fetchmail.pid -d 60



        echo  "started"



}



d_stop() {

        pkill -f "fetchmail.pid"

        echo "killed"

}



case "$1" in

'start')

        d_start

        ;;

'stop')

        d_stop

        ;;

'restart')

        d_stop

        sleep 5

        d_start

        ;;

*)

        echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop | restart}"

        ;;

esac

exit 0

and for GMX IMAP IDLE:

Code:

cat /home/user1/.fetchmail/GMX/fetchmailrc

set postmaster root

set bouncemail



poll imap.gmx.net protocol IMAP user "myUserName@gmx.de" there with password "myPassword" is user1 here keep ssl idle

and hotmail POP:

Code:

cat /home/user2/.fetchmail/Hotmail/fetchmailrc

set postmaster root

set bouncemail



poll pop3.live.com protocol POP3 user "myUserName@hotmail.de" there with pass "myPassword" is user1 here ssl

maybe someone will find this and be happy :)