Package: getmail4
Version: 4.53.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Attached is an improved (IMO) version of /usr/bin/getmails that launches a
separate getmail process for each config file, in parallel, and then waits
for them to all complete, exiting with the "worst" (greatest) exit code of
any of the individual instances.
I wrote this for myself because I'm using it to keep a backup of a couple
gmail accounts that are now, for some reason, taking nearly 30 minutes each
just to enumerate the list of messages (I have a feeling I may have hit some
overuse throttle at Google since the message list data is coming down at
dialup speeds).
Loosely relates to #863856, but does not implement that suggestion. Also
not handled (at least not in any pretty way) is what happens if you run it
with no getmail configs in the specified directory.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'),
(500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages getmail4 depends on:
ii python 2.7.13-2
getmail4 recommends no packages.
getmail4 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
#!/bin/sh
# vim:se tw=78 sts=4:
# Copyright (C) Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org>, GPL2+
set -e
UID_BY_ID=$(id -u)
PID_GETMAILS=$(pgrep -U $UID_BY_ID '^getmails$')
if [ "x$PID_GETMAILS" != "x$$" ]; then
echo "The getmails script is already running as PID=\"$PID_GETMAILS\"
." >&2
exit 1
fi
if [ -f $HOME/.getmail/stop ]; then
echo "Do not run getmail ... (if not, remove $HOME/.getmail/stop)" >&2
exit 1
fi
pids=""
rcfiles="/usr/bin/getmail"
for file in $HOME/.getmail/config/* ; do
/usr/bin/getmail --rcfile "$file" &
pids="$pids $!"
done
rc=0
if [ -n "$pids" ]; then
for pid in $pids ; do
wait $pid
prc=$?
if [ $prc -gt $rc ]; then
rc=$prc
fi
done
fi
exit $rc
