On 13.02.19 11:45, Piers via luv-main wrote:
I have a server that regularly runs jobs to import email via IMAP from remote servers. ... The problem is that these jobs seem to run over each other and then eventually (occasionally) it will hang the server. ... I am looking for suggestions as to:
- How to fix the underlying problem
For a couple of decades now, I've used fetchmail to bring in mail from IMAP or POP mailservers, either corporate or (now in retirement) at the ISP. I configure it to run each 10 minutes, and it never jams. Restarting after a power outage can result in a query: "Delete stale lockfile?" There's a fetchmailconf command to assist with initial setup, so you don't have to hack .fetchmailrc out of raw vacuum. I see mine has barely changed in nearly 20 years. (fetchmailconf datestamps its work) You can have it send mail directly to procmail (if that's what you use to distribute it to multiple inboxes): fetchmail -m procmail or just let it forward to port 25. That's what I tend to do, even though it's probably a complete waste to run postfix with only one mail recipient now. (Old habits die hard.) I'm all for a good excuse for hacking a script, but a long-solved problem isn't such a use case. Erik