Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

[Xavier Bestel]

Le mardi 20 octobre 2009 à 13:00 -0700, David Lang a écrit :
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> > At Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:36:24 +0200, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr> wrote:
> > Subject: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client
> >>
> >> I have a small install with cyrus-imapd 2.3.14, which reads some of its
> >> mails with fetchmail. To limit the delay in mail delivery, fetchmail
> >> awakes each minute to get mails.
> >> What I would like is let fetchmail do that only when there's a client
> >> actually reading its mails, i.e. an MUA actually connected to imapd.
> >
> > I don't get it.  Are you saying you are using fetchmail to inject
> > messages into a locally running Cyrus install which you then connect to
> > with a locally running IMAP MUA?
> 
> I think what he is saying is that he does not have a MTA. he uses fetchmail to 
> download mail from elsewhere and put it in cyrus.
> 
> currently he crons fetchmail to run once a min so that when people are logged in 
> they see new mail with low latencies.
> 
> however, if nobody is logged in to Cyrus, this is a waste of time, and he would 
> be better off running fetchmail less frequently (or not at all).
> 
> so he is asking if there is a way to tell if anyone is connected to Cyrus or 
> not, so that if not he can skip the fetchmail run.

Yes, that's it, precisely.

	Xav