ISPConfig 3

getmail version 4.7.8 (Debian lenny)

If there is more than one retrive task (more .conf files in /etc/getmail) the mail isn't retrieved an is logged an error:

Error: unknown argument(s) ['/etc/getmail/mail.domain.tld_name@site.tld.conf'] ; try --help

For handling multiple task seems getmail require to be invoked with a different syntax:

/usr/bin/getmail -n -v -g /etc/getmail -r /etc/getmail/file1.conf -r /etc/getmail/file2.conf -r /etc/getmail/file3.conf

or with a single rcfile with configuration for multiple tasks.

I've solved in this way:

1 - in /etc/getmail create a file run-getmail.sh (chown getmail + chmod 744)

#!/bin/sh
set -e
cd /etc/getmail
rcfiles=""
for file in *.conf ; do
rcfiles="$rcfiles -r $file"
done
#echo $rcfiles
exec /usr/bin/getmail -n -v -g /etc/getmail $rcfiles

2 - edit crontab of user getmail to invoke this script

*/5 * * * * /etc/getmail/run-getmail.sh > /dev/null 2>> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log