.TH GMS 1df "June 2016" "Manual page for gms"
.SH NAME
.B gms
\- run getmail(1) requests in parallel over multiple getmailrc.* files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gms
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B gms
runs getmail(1) for each file matching the pattern ~/.getmail/getmailrc.*,
doing much the same thing as the getmails(1) script included in the Getmail
distribution. It differs from that script in a few ways:
.IP \[bu] 4
It includes per-rc-file locking so that at most one getmail(1) process runs for
the same account, but allows multiple instances of gms(1df) to run at the same
time.
.IP \[bu]
It runs the requests in parallel using fork(2)/wait(2).
.IP \[bu]
It uses try(1df) to attempt each fetch three times, with 15 seconds between each
attempt, and only prints errors if all three attempts fail.
.SH SEE ALSO
getmail(1), try(1df)
.SH AUTHOR
Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>