At 1148221349 past the epoch, Rich Johnson wrote: > Others may have better info, but I don't think you can run > fetchmail in parallel--at least not more than one process > per user. From "man fetchmail" > > Only one daemon process is permitted per user; in > daemon mode, fetch-mail makes a per-user lockfile > to guarantee this.
Yes, this is very frustrating. It's necessary for people using mboxes with things like NFS where it is possible to truncate the mbox with parallel writes, but is totally superfluous with Maildir. The fetchmail people have strongly resisted either a) implementing parallel support for delivery and checking, or b) making this check optional so at the very least you could run multiple instances. I have a problem in the other direction, where one of my IMAP servers is intermittently unavailable, and the whole checking and delivery process is held up whilst fetchmail waits. If anyone hacks this out I'd be interested in the patch. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
