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From: Barry Pollock <barryp@mail.hurontel.on.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: fetchmail question
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:51:19 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0311101246380.4919@box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031109154756.GB514@romuald.net.eu.org>

fetchmail requires a .fetchmailrc file,
which is usually in the /usr/share/doc/fetchmail directory somewhare.
.fechmailrc
should be in your home directory.
min is in
/home/barryp/.fetchmailrc
Barry

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> Scott, I've got no idea what your fetchmail problem is all
> about. Maybe try reinstalling fetchmail, and see if that makes a
> difference.
>
> As for moving from mbox files in /var/spool to Maildirs in the user's
> home directories, the only mtas that I know of which support Maildirs
> are qmail and the courier mail server.
>
> Having said this though, I believe that newer versions of procmail
> support Maildirs. So, you should be able to pipe your mail from your
> mta, through spam assassin, and then through procmail, which would put
> the mail in the user's Maildir.
>
> In order to create the Maildirs, you will need the maildirmake
> program. I don't know where you could get that separately, mine came
> with qmail.
>
> Maildirs are also crash proof, whereas the standard mbox files are
> not.
>
> Hth somewhat.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 09:28:56AM -0500, Scott Howell wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I have a question regarding fetchmail. I have fetchmail working just
> > fine on box A.
> > I setup fetchmail on box B and moved the exist fetchmailrc file over
> > from box A to B with the hopes of doing a drop-in replacement. I keep
> > getting an error from fetchmail that says fetchmail: no mailservers have
> > been specified. This of course is rediculous as the configuration file
> > is exactly the same one I was using on box A. The permisitions are
> > correct, I know all dns names can be resolved from that box and well I'm
> > flat out of ideas. I also did scrub through the logs, but can't find
> > anything and fetchmail only provides that error message.
> > Oh also I was considering going from the usual spool/mail setup and
> > having each user a mail directory in home. Is there a simple enough way
> > to do this if I'm using Spam Assassin, Procmail, and either Exim or
> > Postfix? I guess the question is there any reason other than keeping
> > mail in the user's home directory thus freeing space for the /var
> > directory and perhaps for security reasons, would I gain anything by
> > continuing to use the spool/mail setup over the maildirs being in the
> > /home/user.
> > Ok I do need some cofee I don't think that made sense. grin
> >
> > tia
> > Scott
> >
> >
> >
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Scott Howell
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Barry Pollock [this message]
     ` Scott Howell
       ` Barry Pollock
         ` Scott Howell
           ` Kenny Hitt
             ` Scott Howell
           ` Chuck Hallenbeck
           ` Barry Pollock
 ` Geoff Shang
   ` Scott Howell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
 Richard Villa
 ` Igor Gueths
   ` Richard Villa
     ` Gregory Nowak
     ` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123
 ` Janina Sajka
   ` Richard Villa
     ` Steve Holmes
       ` Igor Gueths
     ` Janina Sajka
 ` Steve Holmes

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