Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 21 juin à 00:42:33 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | I want to run fetchmail as a service and I am confused about how this works. I | simply want to have something that will quietly fetch and deliver mail to | maildirs to users' home directories, but that can also be disabled easily | when I need that bit of extra performance for something. To enable fetchmail as demon: # /etc/init.d/fetchmail start To have fetchmail start automatically at boot: # rc-update add fetchmail default To suspend fetchmail: # /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop | I assume that fetchmail will first look at /etc/fetchmailrc. Will it then look | at each user's $HOME/.fetchmailrc? Yes | If so, can I assume that it will deal with each user's .procmailrc suid | that user? Yes; have a look at the fetchmail manual (-mda command) regards When I tried it, this didn't seem to work for me. I tried using an empty /etc/fetchmailrc because I wanted fetchmail to go straight to the ~/.fetchmailrc's, but it complained that no server was specified. I'm not panicked about this any more because I have decided to use the relatively painless webmin to configure the ~/.fetchmailrc's and schedule cron jobs. even though it isn't exactly what I wanted. That said, if anyone knows what I should have done to get the fetchmail service to use the ~/.fetchmailrc's rather than /etc/fetchmailrc I would appreciate it. Many thanks. Robert -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service
Robert Persson wrote: I'm not panicked about this any more because I have decided to use the relatively painless webmin to configure the ~/.fetchmailrc's and schedule cron jobs. even though it isn't exactly what I wanted. That said, if anyone knows what I should have done to get the fetchmail service to use the ~/.fetchmailrc's rather than /etc/fetchmailrc I would appreciate it. Actually, scratch all that. Fetchmail lost some mails. That's really bad. So I ditched it and have set up getmail instead. Seems to be working so far. And it's much easier to configure. Has an option to leave mail on server so many days after collecting it, which will help if it decides to lose mails as well. No daemon mode, so need to run it as a cron job. Robert -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service
Le 25 juin à 08:18:20 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: | Le 21 juin à 00:42:33 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | | | I want to run fetchmail as a service and I am confused about how | this works. I | simply want to have something that will quietly | fetch and deliver mail to | maildirs to users' home directories, but | that can also be disabled easily | when I need that bit of extra | performance for something. | | To enable fetchmail as demon: | # /etc/init.d/fetchmail start | | To have fetchmail start automatically at boot: | # rc-update add fetchmail default | | To suspend fetchmail: | # /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop || I assume that fetchmail will first look at | /etc/fetchmailrc. Will it then look | at each user's | $HOME/.fetchmailrc? | | Yes | | | | | If so, can I assume that it will deal with each user's .procmailrc suid | | that user? | | | | Yes; have a look at the fetchmail manual (-mda command) | | regards | | | When I tried it, this didn't seem to work for me. I tried using an | empty /etc/fetchmailrc because I wanted fetchmail to go straight to | the ~/.fetchmailrc's, but it complained that no server was specified. There is this option in /etc/init.d/fetchmail which says that the config file is /etc/fetchmailrc: -f /etc/fetchmailrc (it is in the middle of the file); but if you remove it I think only /root/.fetchmailrc would be searched, and I guess you don't have it and it's not your problem. | I'm not panicked about this any more because I have decided to use | the relatively painless webmin to configure the ~/.fetchmailrc's | and | schedule cron jobs. even though it isn't exactly what I wanted. That's a good solution, I don't think running fetchmail as a daemon is superior, it's just more straightforward for a system where a centralized fetchmailrc is possible. | That said, if anyone knows what I should have done to get the fetchmail | service to use the ~/.fetchmailrc's rather than /etc/fetchmailrc I would | appreciate it. Well, you could imagine a cron job to copy the content of all ~/.fetchmailrc in /etc/fetchmailrc (cat would do that), say every two hours, and run fetchmail as daemon... but is worth it? regards -- Jean Magnan de Bornier |Cours Victor Hugo e-mots: jean at bornier.net|13980 Alleins France T 08 70 39 34 03 |P 06 09 17 35 87 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 22:49 Jean Magnan de Bornier was like: Yes Thanks! That's what I needed to know. -- Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service
I want to run fetchmail as a service and I am confused about how this works. I simply want to have something that will quietly fetch and deliver mail to maildirs to users' home directories, but that can also be disabled easily when I need that bit of extra performance for something. I assume that fetchmail will first look at /etc/fetchmailrc. Will it then look at each user's $HOME/.fetchmailrc? If so, can I assume that it will deal with each user's .procmailrc suid that user? If not, what do I need to do instead? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service
Le 21 juin à 00:42:33 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | I want to run fetchmail as a service and I am confused about how this works. I | simply want to have something that will quietly fetch and deliver mail to | maildirs to users' home directories, but that can also be disabled easily | when I need that bit of extra performance for something. To enable fetchmail as demon: # /etc/init.d/fetchmail start To have fetchmail start automatically at boot: # rc-update add fetchmail default To suspend fetchmail: # /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop | I assume that fetchmail will first look at /etc/fetchmailrc. Will it then look | at each user's $HOME/.fetchmailrc? Yes | If so, can I assume that it will deal with each user's .procmailrc suid | that user? Yes; have a look at the fetchmail manual (-mda command) regards -- Jean Magnan de Bornier |Cours Victor Hugo e-mots: jean at bornier.net|13980 Alleins France T 08 70 39 34 03 |P 06 09 17 35 87 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
