NAME

       getmails - wrapper for getmail to access multiple mailboxes

SYNOPSIS

       getmails [-p] [OPTION] ...

DESCRIPTION

       getmails  is  a  wrapper  script for getmail to retrieve messages with multiple independent configuration
       files ~/.getmail/config/* instead of a single ~/.getmailrc file.

       The configuration file name can be any arbitrary names.  It's good idea to use  the  corresponding  email
       address as its name since it is the most intuitive choice.  For example ~/.getmail/config/foo@example.org
       .

       To  disable  operation  for  an email account temporary, rename its configuration file to the hidden file
       such as ~/.getmail/config/.foo@example.org .  Then, it is ignored as the configuration file.

       For  the  robust   operation,   the   editor   generated   files   such   as   ~/.getmail/config/foo~   ,
       ~/.getmail/config/#foo#  ,  ~/.getmail/config/foo.swp , and ~/.getmail/config/foo.bak are also ignored as
       the configuration file.

       When there are multiple email configuration files, getmails retrieves mails sequentially.  But adding  an
       optional  option -p before other options makes getmails to invoke getmail with each configuration file in
       parallel to retrieve mails.

       The option provided as OPTION is passed to getmail as is.  The use of the -r option is not a good idea.

       The existence of ~/.getmail/stop can prevent this wrapper script to execute getmail.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to the getmail debian package if bugs are in this wrapper script.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2011-2017 Osamu Aoki
       This is free software; see the file COPYING for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not  even  for
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

getmail                                           December 2017                                      getmails(1)