On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:05:17AM -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: > You may notice that in the OPs 1st reply that the requirement is to > retrieve multiple accounts *at the same time* to increase speed. > AFAIK, if you use 1 file with fetchmail it will retrieve messages > sequentially from each account. You can always run multiple copies of fetchmail in the background if you want parallel fetching #!/bin/sh fetchmail -f configfile1 & fetchmail -f configfile2 & fetchmail -f configfile3 -- rgds Stephen