On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Stephen Harris wrote: > You can always run multiple copies of fetchmail in the background if you > want parallel fetching or run just one tenth of those RC files (when well numbered) present each time a script is invoked, if you are not in a hurry to retrieve email from side accounts, and want to be kind to the remote pop hosts -- Russ herrold #!/bin/sh # # ~/bin/get-stray-email.sh # $Id: get-stray-fetchmail.sh,v 1.3 2009/10/23 13:48:47 herrold Exp herrold $ # License: GPLv3+ # bug reports to: info at owlriver.com # # use fetchmail with custom rc files, and pull # upgrade to use a 0-9 rotor to spread load # export PATH='/usr/java/latest/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:~/bin/:/home/herrold/bin:~/bin/' # # the config files live in a protected directory export FETCHRC=".fetchmail" cd [ ! -d $FETCHRC/ ] && { mkdir $FETCHRC/ chmod 700 $FETCHRC } # # defaults, and options parsing # need to more into a while loop, and add a scan exit QUIET="--silent " DEBUG="" [ "x$1" = "x-d" ] && { export DEBUG="y " shift 1 } [ "x$1" = "x-v" ] && { export QUIET="" export VERBOSE="--verbose " shift 1 } [ "x${QUIET}" = "x" ] && { export QUIET="" export VERBOSE="--verbose " } # # option $1 support being refactored; out for the moment # Remembering Jimi ... [ "xsix" = "x9" ] && { # # SUFFIX works when we cd into $FETCHRC and have the file naming set up # right SUFFIX=".fetchmailrc-gmail" [ "x$1" != "x" ] && { export SUFFIX=`echo ".fetchmailrc-gmail$1"` # make sure we have one [ ! -e ~/$FETCHRC/$SUFFIX ] && export SUFFIX="" # # actually we need to stop scanning options here shift 1 } } # # main body # New model is to run a rotor [ ! -e $FETCHRC/.fetch-rotor ] && touch $FETCHRC/.fetch-rotor LASTRUN=` ( echo -n "0" ; cat $FETCHRC/.fetch-rotor | \ perl -p -e "tr/[0-9]//cd" ) ` [ "0$LASTRUN" -lt 1 ] && echo "00" > $FETCHRC/.fetch-rotor LASTRUN=` ( ( cat $FETCHRC/.fetch-rotor | \ perl -p -e "tr/[0-9]//cd" ; echo " + 0" ) | bc ) ` [ "x${DEBUG}" != "x" ] && echo "Rotor is: $LASTRUN" 1>&2 # # main loop for i in ` ls -1 $FETCHRC/.fetchmailrc-*[0-9] | grep "${LASTRUN}$" `; do [ "x${VERBOSE}" != "x" ] && { echo "i: $i" 1>&2 } [ -e ${i} ] && fetchmail -f ${i} -a ${QUIET} ${VERBOSE} || { echo "Error: non-zero return code on: $i " 1>&2 grep -v "^#" $i | grep -v "[ ]" 1>&2 grep "user" $i 1>&2 } sleep 3 # sleep 30 done # LASTRUN=` echo "${LASTRUN} + 1" | bc | rev | cut -c 1 | rev` # echo "new LASTRUN: $LASTRUN" echo "$LASTRUN" > $FETCHRC/.fetch-rotor # # exit 0 # # # This is a sample ~/.fetchmail/. cat - << END > /dev/null # # gmail pop works # sample fetchmail -f config file poll pop.gmail.com with proto pop3: port 995 timeout 60 user "GMAILUSERID at gmail.com" there with password "GMAILPASSWORD" is LOCALUSERID here fetchall expunge 50 options ssl # END # -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: get-stray-fetchmail.sh Type: application/x-sh Size: 2471 bytes Desc: URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091218/6526c007/attachment-0004.sh>