Correct Fetchmail with IDLE and multiple servers config

Nerd2 · 05-14-2008, 05:12 AM

Hi all,

Simple question - what is the correct configuration to run fetchmail on 3 IMAP servers, utilising the IDLE command?

I can run in daemon mode, polling each one, but with no IDLE command.
Adding the idle command in daemon mode, freezes fetchmail on the first server.
I cannot run individual fetchmail instances for each server, as fetchmail will not run more than once.

Is there a way to make this work?
I would also like to ensure if the connection temporarily falls over, that fetchmail will reconnect.

Thanks,
Sam

jeixav · 08-18-2011, 07:39 AM

Single user, multiple IMAP IDLE accounts (again)

Winmax · 06-18-2012, 05:41 AM

Even this is pretty old, i wasn't able to find a good solution anywhere. After a few hours i found a working way for me, which i will paste here, becouse this thread is the first thing found by google

Code:

root@myServer:~# cat /etc/init.d/_fetchmailStart 
#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in
'start')
	export FETCHMAILHOME=/home/max/.fetchmail/GMX01
        fetchmail -L /var/log/fetchmailMaxGmx.log -f ${FETCHMAILHOME}/fetchmailrc --pidfile ${FETCHMAILHOME}/fetchmail.pid -d 60
	export FETCHMAILHOME=/home/max/.fetchmail/GMX02
        fetchmail -L /var/log/fetchmailMaxGmx.log -f ${FETCHMAILHOME}/fetchmailrc --pidfile ${FETCHMAILHOME}/fetchmail.pid -d 60

echo "started"
;;
'stop')
	pkill -f "fetchmail"
	;;
*)
	echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
	;;
esac
exit 0

root@myServer:~# cat /home/max/.fetchmail/GMX01/fetchmailrc 
set postmaster root
set bouncemail

poll imap.gmx.net protocol IMAP user "myMailAdress@gmx.de" there with password "mySuperSecretPassword" is max here keep ssl idle

Lockywolf · 09-28-2020, 08:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeixav

Single user, multiple IMAP IDLE accounts (again)

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