[Fetchmail-users] WG: Running multiple fetchmail processes at the same time

[Christopher M. <C.M...@da...>]

Hello,

we have the following problem:

We are downloading emails from our mailserver through fetchmail. Right now we are downloading from 50 Mailboxes (via POP3) and have it setup that every mailbox has its own config file. For example:

fetchmail -F -f /dokuweb/log/.fetchmailrc_0042
fetchmail -F -f /dokuweb/log/.fetchmailrc_einvoice_00D4

.fetchmailrc_0042
poll XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX protocol pop3 auth password
user XXX password XXX is XXX
poll XXX.XXX.XXX.XXXX protocol pop3 auth password
user YYY password XXX is YYY

.fetchmailrc_einvoice_00D4:
poll XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX protocol pop3 auth password
user XXX password XXX is XXX


Since we are processing the emails after they downloaded we have multiple poll processes running that initiate the above commands. If one of those poll processes is initiating the fetchmail command and another one is already running we get the following message:

fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 28646.

Is there any way we can run multiple fetchmail processes at the same time?

Thank you very much.

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