fetchmail

fetchmail

[Scott Howell]

This question is in reference to the Debian installation of Fetchmail. My
question is in reference to the ability of running the daemon system-wide
for all users.
I read the man page and so forth on how to set things up. I have a
Fetchmail user as instructed, set 600 on the fetchmailrc file in /etc,
and so forth. I also put my users information into the file and
everything is configured as it should.
I run the init script and all indications are its working just fine. This
appears to be the case, but where the problem is as follows.
All mail winds up in a fetchmail file in /var/mail and the problem I'm
having is how to then filter the mail from this fetchmail file into
user's mailboxes. It appears to be a file format that mutt can deal with;
mbox/ascii, but what isn't apparent to me is how the mail should get from
there to here.
So, if anyone has setup fetchmail in this manner and could shed some
light on this, I'd appreciate it. I'm going nuts here. I didn't see any
reference anywhere to this /var/mail/fetchmail file so either I'm missing
something or some needs configuring like procmail or something.

tia

Scott

Re: fetchmail

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Scott,
Recent versions of fetchmail have a keyword called "smtpname"
which redirects messages to a specified user address. I have a
single fetchmail running as a daemon on the root account which
has commands like this in it:

smtpname hallenbeck@localhost

or

smtpname chuckh@localhost

or

smtpname mary@mhonline.net

Not sure what your version is, but check the man page and search
for "smtpname" -- it should do what you want.

HTH - Chuck


On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Scott Howell wrote:

> This question is in reference to the Debian installation of Fetchmail. My
> question is in reference to the ability of running the daemon system-wide
> for all users.
> I read the man page and so forth on how to set things up. I have a
> Fetchmail user as instructed, set 600 on the fetchmailrc file in /etc,
> and so forth. I also put my users information into the file and
> everything is configured as it should.
> I run the init script and all indications are its working just fine. This
> appears to be the case, but where the problem is as follows.
> All mail winds up in a fetchmail file in /var/mail and the problem I'm
> having is how to then filter the mail from this fetchmail file into
> user's mailboxes. It appears to be a file format that mutt can deal with;
> mbox/ascii, but what isn't apparent to me is how the mail should get from
> there to here.
> So, if anyone has setup fetchmail in this manner and could shed some
> light on this, I'd appreciate it. I'm going nuts here. I didn't see any
> reference anywhere to this /var/mail/fetchmail file so either I'm missing
> something or some needs configuring like procmail or something.
>
> tia
>
> Scott
>
>
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Re: fetchmail

[Scott Howell]

Hi Chuck,

Ok thanks. That's interesting and will look that up. Like I said the mail
is showing up, but is ending up in a file that mutt doesn't know about
and probably shouldn't. I will look up the "smtpname" directive and am
hoping it placed in the system-wide file will in fact redirect the mail
coming in for users to their mailboxes as it were.

tnx

Re: fetchmail

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi. you need to add lines to the /etc/fetchmailrc file for eacher like
user kennyhitt to kennyhitt
You will need an entry for each user on the system.

          Kenny

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:53:59PM -0400, Scott Howell wrote:
> This question is in reference to the Debian installation of Fetchmail. My
> question is in reference to the ability of running the daemon system-wide
> for all users.
> I read the man page and so forth on how to set things up. I have a
> Fetchmail user as instructed, set 600 on the fetchmailrc file in /etc,
> and so forth. I also put my users information into the file and
> everything is configured as it should.
> I run the init script and all indications are its working just fine. This
> appears to be the case, but where the problem is as follows.
> All mail winds up in a fetchmail file in /var/mail and the problem I'm
> having is how to then filter the mail from this fetchmail file into
> user's mailboxes. It appears to be a file format that mutt can deal with;
> mbox/ascii, but what isn't apparent to me is how the mail should get from
> there to here.
> So, if anyone has setup fetchmail in this manner and could shed some
> light on this, I'd appreciate it. I'm going nuts here. I didn't see any
> reference anywhere to this /var/mail/fetchmail file so either I'm missing
> something or some needs configuring like procmail or something.
> 
> tia
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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Re: fetchmail

[Kerry Hoath]

No scott what you want is the
user blah there i s user blah here stuff.
Here is an example although check syntax

poll host.mymail.com
protocol pop3
user bob
pass letmein
user bob there is alice here
poll othermail.provider.com
protocol pop3
user alice
pass fashion
user alice there is dafney here

Now this could be wrongly formatted; in the wrong part of the file etc
but you want to read about multidrop mode.
Using fetchmail as a mail redirector is no substitute for running an MTA
so keep that in mind.
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 02:45:09PM -0400, Scott Howell wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> Ok thanks. That's interesting and will look that up. Like I said the mail
> is showing up, but is ending up in a file that mutt doesn't know about
> and probably shouldn't. I will look up the "smtpname" directive and am
> hoping it placed in the system-wide file will in fact redirect the mail
> coming in for users to their mailboxes as it were.
> 
> tnx
> 
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Re: fetchmail

[Scott Howell]

Kerry,

Maybe I'm on the wrong track all together.

Here is my setup and tell me what you think. 
I could use imap or something perhaps, but I choose not to do so for any
hosts on my network and if I wish to get mail from outside, I'd rather
pull it all down instead of using imap.

Ok, my box@domain is the machin I sit at and twiddle my thumbs,
remote@mydomain is the server where mail is sent and thus the machine I
pull mail down from.
What I did is to use Fetchmail to pop the mail from remote@mydomain from,
and of course mymybox@domain is where I read the excellent offersing and
reply to them from.

I assume what your saying here is the following is the better method for
redirecting mail as opposed to using the smtpname directive which btw,
works fine. I have nto of course tried this with another user's account
and maybe this is the problem I'll run into. So, is there in fact a
better way to do what I want?
I run Postfix here which the mail is sent out on back to remote@mydomain.
If there is a better way please do tell. I'm always open to better
methods. I started down this road because I wanted some means for mail to
hit this machine regardless if I was logged into it or not being as I do
not grab mail from the outside at this point, but am keeping that option
open by turning off what method and on when I wish.
I checked out Fetchmail running as itself in a "system-wide" method and I
couldn't get the mail from /var/mail/fetchmail file into my personal
/var/mail/showell mailbox.
The smtpname directive solved this problem. So, your method is the same
or different? I'll look up that info you provided to see the differences.

thanks

Scott

Re: fetchmail

[Raul A. Gallegos]

The older versions of fetchmail might require the is command... for example:

rgallegos is raul

Meaning that the user rgallegos on the remote system gets delivered to the
local user raul on the local system.

Good luck.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <hallenbeck@valstar.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: fetchmail


> Hi Scott,
> Recent versions of fetchmail have a keyword called "smtpname"
> which redirects messages to a specified user address. I have a
> single fetchmail running as a daemon on the root account which
> has commands like this in it:
>
> smtpname hallenbeck@localhost
>
> or
>
> smtpname chuckh@localhost
>
> or
>
> smtpname mary@mhonline.net
>
> Not sure what your version is, but check the man page and search
> for "smtpname" -- it should do what you want.
>
> HTH - Chuck
>
>
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Scott Howell wrote:
>
> > This question is in reference to the Debian installation of Fetchmail.
My
> > question is in reference to the ability of running the daemon
system-wide
> > for all users.
> > I read the man page and so forth on how to set things up. I have a
> > Fetchmail user as instructed, set 600 on the fetchmailrc file in /etc,
> > and so forth. I also put my users information into the file and
> > everything is configured as it should.
> > I run the init script and all indications are its working just fine.
This
> > appears to be the case, but where the problem is as follows.
> > All mail winds up in a fetchmail file in /var/mail and the problem I'm
> > having is how to then filter the mail from this fetchmail file into
> > user's mailboxes. It appears to be a file format that mutt can deal
with;
> > mbox/ascii, but what isn't apparent to me is how the mail should get
from
> > there to here.
> > So, if anyone has setup fetchmail in this manner and could shed some
> > light on this, I'd appreciate it. I'm going nuts here. I didn't see any
> > reference anywhere to this /var/mail/fetchmail file so either I'm
missing
> > something or some needs configuring like procmail or something.
> >
> > tia
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
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Re: fetchmail

[Igor Gueths]

Hi. On fetchmail-5.9.11 this command is replaced by smtpname user@host.

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On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:

> The older versions of fetchmail might require the is command... for example:
>
> rgallegos is raul
>
> Meaning that the user rgallegos on the remote system gets delivered to the
> local user raul on the local system.
>
> Good luck.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <hallenbeck@valstar.net>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 1:26 PM
> Subject: Re: fetchmail
>
>
> > Hi Scott,
> > Recent versions of fetchmail have a keyword called "smtpname"
> > which redirects messages to a specified user address. I have a
> > single fetchmail running as a daemon on the root account which
> > has commands like this in it:
> >
> > smtpname hallenbeck@localhost
> >
> > or
> >
> > smtpname chuckh@localhost
> >
> > or
> >
> > smtpname mary@mhonline.net
> >
> > Not sure what your version is, but check the man page and search
> > for "smtpname" -- it should do what you want.
> >
> > HTH - Chuck
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Scott Howell wrote:
> >
> > > This question is in reference to the Debian installation of Fetchmail.
> My
> > > question is in reference to the ability of running the daemon
> system-wide
> > > for all users.
> > > I read the man page and so forth on how to set things up. I have a
> > > Fetchmail user as instructed, set 600 on the fetchmailrc file in /etc,
> > > and so forth. I also put my users information into the file and
> > > everything is configured as it should.
> > > I run the init script and all indications are its working just fine.
> This
> > > appears to be the case, but where the problem is as follows.
> > > All mail winds up in a fetchmail file in /var/mail and the problem I'm
> > > having is how to then filter the mail from this fetchmail file into
> > > user's mailboxes. It appears to be a file format that mutt can deal
> with;
> > > mbox/ascii, but what isn't apparent to me is how the mail should get
> from
> > > there to here.
> > > So, if anyone has setup fetchmail in this manner and could shed some
> > > light on this, I'd appreciate it. I'm going nuts here. I didn't see any
> > > reference anywhere to this /var/mail/fetchmail file so either I'm
> missing
> > > something or some needs configuring like procmail or something.
> > >
> > > tia
> > >
> > > Scott
> > >
> > >
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> > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > >
> >
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> > So visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
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RE: Fetchmail

[Dawes, Stephen]

Check your math! 
The -d 600 that you show in your note, as I understand fetchmail
configuration is the number of seconds between checks. 
So, the last time I did math:
5 * 60 = 300 
Or in other words:
600 / 60 = 10
So you are telling fetchmail to check every 10 minutes not 5 minutes as
you posted in your note. 

That is assuming that you are not using some funky form of new math.


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Re: Fetchmail

[Christopher Moore]

I run fetchmail with the -d option so that it checks every few minutes.  
fetchmail -d 600 
will get the mail every 5 minutes.
Chris

Fetchmail

[Rejean Proulx]

I am trying to configure fetchmail and start it as a daemon so I can fetch
more than one address and forward it to more than one account.  Does anyone
know how to do this?  So far, I have some files that let you do 1 account
every time you enter the command fetchmail. but I can't figure out how to
start it as a deamon and let it fetch mail every few minutes.  The
documentation is not good for this package, unless there is a web site I
haven't found yet.

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